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embracive

embracive adjective: disposed to embrace, or fond of caressing.

Adjective

embracive (comparative more embracive, superlative most embracive)

  1. Disposed to embrace, or fond of caressing.
    • Not less kind in her way, though less expansive and embracive, was Madame de Montcontour to my wife, as I found on comparing notes with that young woman, when the day's hospitalities were ended.1854, Arthur Pendennis [pseudonym; William Makepeace Thackeray], The Newcomes: Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], →OCLC

Forms of embracive

comparativemore embracive
superlativemost embracive

Origin of embracive

From embrace + -ive.

Questions about embracive

What does embracive mean?
Embracive means disposed to embrace, or fond of caressing.
What part of speech is embracive?
Embracive is an adjective.

Words near embracive in the dictionary

  1. embracing the penguin
  2. embracing the suck
  3. embracingly
  4. embracingness
  5. embracings
  6. embracive
  7. Embraer
  8. embraid
  9. embraided
  10. embraiding
  11. embraids

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