Embrace vs False - What's the difference?
embrace | false |
To clasp in the arms with affection; to take in the arms; to hug.
* Shakespeare
* Bible, Acts xx. 1
(obsolete) To cling to; to cherish; to love.
To seize eagerly, or with alacrity; to accept with cordiality; to welcome.
* Shakespeare
* John Locke
To accept; to undergo; to submit to.
* Shakespeare
To encircle; to encompass; to enclose.
* Dryden
* Denham
To enfold, to include (ideas, principles, etc.); to encompass.
To fasten on, as armour.
(legal) To attempt to influence (a jury, court, etc.) corruptly.
Hug (noun); putting arms around someone.
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*:a delighted shout from the children swung him toward the door again. His sister, Mrs. Gerard, stood there in carriage gown and sables, radiant with surprise. ¶ "Phil! You! Exactly like you, Philip, to come strolling in from the antipodes—dear fellow!" recovering from the fraternal embrace and holding both lapels of his coat in her gloved hands.
(metaphorical) Enfolding, including.
Untrue, not factual, factually incorrect.
*{{quote-book, year=1551, year_published=1888
, title= Based on factually incorrect premises: false legislation
Spurious, artificial.
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*:At her invitation he outlined for her the succeeding chapters with terse military accuracy?; and what she liked best and best understood was avoidance of that false modesty which condescends, turning technicality into pabulum.
(lb) Of a state in Boolean logic that indicates a negative result.
Uttering falsehood; dishonest or deceitful.
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Not faithful or loyal, as to obligations, allegiance, vows, etc.; untrue; treacherous.
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*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
*:I to myself was false , ere thou to me.
Not well founded; not firm or trustworthy; erroneous.
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*(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
*:whose false foundation waves have swept away
Not essential or permanent, as parts of a structure which are temporary or supplemental.
(lb) Out of tune.
As a verb embrace
is to clasp in the arms with affection; to take in the arms; to hug.As a noun embrace
is hug (noun); putting arms around someone.As an adjective false is
(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.embrace
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Alternative forms
* imbrace (obsolete)Verb
(embrac)- I will embrace him with a soldier's arm, / That he shall shrink under my courtesy.
- Paul called unto him the disciples, and embraced them.
- (Shakespeare)
- I wholeheartedly embrace the new legislation.
- You embrace the occasion.
- What is there that he may not embrace for truth?
- I embrace this fortune patiently.
- Not that my song, in such a scanty space, / So large a subject fully can embrace .
- Low at his feet a spacious plain is placed, / Between the mountain and the stream embraced .
- Natural philosophy embraces many sciences.
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- (Blackstone)
Noun
(en noun)false
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Adjective
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