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embraving

embraving is the present participle and gerund of embrave.

Meaning of embrave

Verb

embrave (third-person singular simple present embraves, present participle embraving, simple past and past participle embraved)

  1. (obsolete) To inspire with bravery.
    • fewer Colors should embrave his Coat1648, Joseph Beaumont, “(please specify the canto number)”, in Psyche: Or Loves Mysterie, […], London: […] John Dawson for George Boddington, […], →OCLC
  2. (obsolete) To embellish, adorn.
    • The great earthes wombe they open to the sky, / And with sad Cypresse seemely it embraue […]1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Questions about embraving

What is embraving the present participle and gerund of?
Embraving is the present participle and gerund of embrave.

Words near embraving in the dictionary

  1. embrasured
  2. embrasures
  3. embrave
  4. embraved
  5. embraves
  6. embraving
  7. embrawn
  8. embrawned
  9. embrawning
  10. embrawns
  11. embrazure

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