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Embrace vs Submit - What's the difference?

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In obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between embrace and submit

is that embrace is (obsolete) to cling to; to cherish; to love while submit is (obsolete) to put or place under.

As verbs the difference between embrace and submit

is that embrace is to clasp in the arms with affection; to take in the arms; to hug while submit is to yield or give way to another.

As a noun embrace

is hug (noun); putting arms around someone.

embrace

English

Alternative forms

* imbrace (obsolete)

Verb

(embrac)
  • To clasp in the arms with affection; to take in the arms; to hug.
  • * Shakespeare
    • I will embrace him with a soldier's arm, / That he shall shrink under my courtesy.
  • * Bible, Acts xx. 1
    • Paul called unto him the disciples, and embraced them.
  • (obsolete) To cling to; to cherish; to love.
    • (Shakespeare)
  • To seize eagerly, or with alacrity; to accept with cordiality; to welcome.
    • I wholeheartedly embrace the new legislation.
  • * Shakespeare
    • You embrace the occasion.
  • * John Locke
    • What is there that he may not embrace for truth?
  • To accept; to undergo; to submit to.
  • * Shakespeare
    • I embrace this fortune patiently.
  • To encircle; to encompass; to enclose.
  • * Dryden
    • Not that my song, in such a scanty space, / So large a subject fully can embrace .
  • * Denham
    • Low at his feet a spacious plain is placed, / Between the mountain and the stream embraced .
  • To enfold, to include (ideas, principles, etc.); to encompass.
    • Natural philosophy embraces many sciences.
  • To fasten on, as armour.
    • (Spenser)
  • (legal) To attempt to influence (a jury, court, etc.) corruptly.
    • (Blackstone)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Hug (noun); putting arms around someone.
  • *
  • *: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.

    • submit

    English

    Verb

    (submitt)
  • To yield or give way to another.
    • They will not submit to the destruction of their rights.
  • or To enter or put forward for approval, consideration, marking etc.
    • I submit these plans for your approval.
  • * Macaulay
    • We submit that a wooden spoon of our day would not be justified in calling Galileo and Napier blockheads because they never heard of the differential calculus.
  • (mixed martial arts) To win a fight by submission.
  • * '>citation
    • "[Ronda] Rousey, a former U.S. Olympian in Judo, caps off a perfect year in which she submitted Liz Carmouche in the first-ever UFC female fight and coached opposite [Miesha] Tate in "The Ultimate Fighter" reality series."
  • (obsolete) To let down; to lower.
  • * Dryden
    • Sometimes the hill submits itself a while.
  • (obsolete) To put or place under.
  • * Chapman
    • The bristled throat / Of the submitted sacrifice with ruthless steel he cut.

    Derived terms

    * submittable * submittal * submitter

    Related terms

    * submission * submissive

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