Enclosure vs Embracement - What's the difference?
enclosure | embracement |
(countable) Something enclosed, i.e. inserted into a letter or similar package.
(uncountable) The act of enclosing, i.e. the insertion or inclusion of an item in a letter or package.
(countable) An area, domain, or amount of something partially or entirely enclosed by barriers.
(uncountable) The act of separating and surrounding an area, domain, or amount of something with a barrier.
(uncountable, British History) The post-feudal process of subdivision of common lands for individual ownership.
The area of a convent, monastery, etc where access is restricted to community members.
A clasp in the arms; embrace.
*, II.8:
*:What was that but a kinde, tender, and fatherly farwell which he tooke of his children? representing the last adiewes, and parting imbracements , which at our death we give unto our dearest issues?
(obsolete) State of being contained; enclosure.
(obsolete) Willing acceptance.
As nouns the difference between enclosure and embracement
is that enclosure is something enclosed, i.e. inserted into a letter or similar package while embracement is a clasp in the arms; embrace.enclosure
English
(wikipedia enclosure)Alternative forms
* inclosureNoun
- There was an enclosure with the letter — a photo.
- ''The enclosure of a photo with your letter is appreciated.
- He faced punishment for creating the fenced enclosure in a public park.
- The glass enclosure holds the mercury vapor.
- The winning horse was first into the unsaddling enclosure .
- The enclosure of public land is against the law.
- The experiment requires the enclosure of mercury vapor in a glass tube.
- At first, untrained horses resist enclosure .
- Strip-farming disappeared after enclosure .
