Embracing vs Hug - What's the difference?
embracing | hug |
The act of giving an embrace.
* 1849 , Charles Frederick Briggs, Holden's Dollar Magazine (volumes 3-4, page 240)
(obsolete) To crouch; huddle as with cold.
To cling closely together.
To embrace by holding closely, especially in the arms.
To stay close to (the shore etc.)
* , chapter=8
, title= (figurative) To hold fast; to cling to; to cherish.
* Glanvill
As verbs the difference between embracing and hug
is that embracing is present participle of lang=en while hug is to crouch; huddle as with cold.As nouns the difference between embracing and hug
is that embracing is the act of giving an embrace while hug is an affectionate close embrace.embracing
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(en noun)- Ay, in so doing you will but voluntarily throw yourself into her arms, and, with fond embracings , proclaim yourself a willing servant; do not, in the wild endeavor to win fame, strive to crush her power!
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(wikipedia hug)Verb
(hugg)- (Palsgrave)
Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=We toted in the wood and got the fire going nice and comfortable. Lord James still set in one of the chairs and Applegate had cabbaged the other and was hugging the stove.}}
- We hug deformities if they bear our names.