Usage
What does embracive mean? Embracive describes something that is fully encompassing, as in Ulga took an embracive approach to learning about Guatemala by living there for several years.Something that is embracive surrounds something else, as an envelope does for a letter or a phone case does for a mobile phone. Embracive can also mean given to embracing or caressing, as in Parents are often embracive of their new babies, hugging and cuddling them a lot.Example: The marketing plan is embracive of our company’s mission and direction.
Other Word Forms
- embracively adverb
Etymology
Origin of embracive
Example Sentences
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The idea of beauty can be embracive and still leave difference intact.
From New York Times • Jan. 6, 2022
It was my first taste of a more liberal setting that was embracive of art.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 16, 2021
Mr. Musante, who served time with Blue Man Group, enlisted a bunch of experimental theater artists for this hearty helping of community spirit, with the aim of not just being immersive but embracive.
From New York Times • Dec. 20, 2018
Not less kind in her way, though less expensive and embracive, was Madame de Moncontour to my wife, as I found on comparing notes with that young woman, when the day's hospitalities were ended.
From The Newcomes Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family by Thackeray, William Makepeace
The Empire of the Tsars being so vast in area and so embracive of races affords space for all forms of belief, or want of belief, within her boundaries.
From Russia As Seen and Described by Famous Writers by Singleton, Esther
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