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embracive, a.|ɛmˈbreɪsɪv|
[irregularly f. embrace v. + -ive.]
1. Given to or fond of embracing; embracing demonstratively. nonce-use.
1855Thackeray Newcomes (1869) II. xix, Not less kind..though less expansive and embracive, was Madame de Montcontour to my wife.
2. Embracing or tending to embrace all. Hence emˈbracively adv.
1897Academy (Fiction Suppl.) 18 Sept. 70/1 ‘George Du Maurier in three volumes’ would be a fair embracive title. 1899Westm. Gaz. 22 Apr. 7/2 General Sir W. Olpherts, V.C., in replying for ‘The Army’ embracively spoke of the American Army. 1902Academy 16 Aug. 178/1 The ‘characteristics of the time’ and the ‘natural lineaments of contemporary people’ may have found no embracive novelist. 1902Edin. Rev. Oct. 357 Important deities have been omitted from this brief catalogue, which is much more representative than embracive. 1930Punch 18 June 683 Perhaps he is too embracive, for it is doubtful if Mr. William Nicholson should be grouped with purely comic artists. 1937Sun (Baltimore) 9 June 10/8 The two nouns are used embracively, of course, ‘the tumult and the shouting’, and anybody but a numskull would be able to see the purpose of the use of this type of expression with a singular verb. |