Embrave vs Hug - What's the difference?
embrave | hug |
(obsolete) To inspire with bravery.
(obsolete) To embellish, adorn.
*1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.i:
*:The great earthes wombe they open to the sky, / And with sad Cypresse seemely it embraue [...].
(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 embrave and hug
is that embrave is to inspire with bravery while hug is to crouch; huddle as with cold.As a noun hug is
an affectionate close embrace.embrave
English
Verb
(embrav)- (Beaumont)
hug
English
(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.