embosom

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verb

To draw to or into one's bosom; to treasure.

Scrabble 13

Meanings

verbembosom (third-person singular simple present embosoms, present participle embosoming, simple past and past participle embosomed)

present singular third person embosoms · participle present embosoming · participle past embosomed · past embosomed · alternative imbosom

  1. transitiveTo draw to or into one's bosom; to treasure.
  2. transitiveTo enclose, surround, or protect.

    [S]uffice it to record, that blessed with a numerous progeny, Emily found herself completely embosomed in domestic bliss: […]

    1826, William Child Green, The Woodland Family, or The Sons of Error and Daughters of Simplicity, A Domestic Tale, London: J. M'Gowan and Sons, →OCLC, page 556
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    Embosomed in the forest of the canton of La Double, near the road leading from Périgueux to Ribérac, is a monument named Roque Brun.

    1850, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, London: H.G. Bohn, page 472

    There were several native villages scattered about, so embosomed in fruit trees that at a distance they looked like clumps or patches of forest.

    1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume I, London: Macmillan and Co., page 334

    […] and thus mind is reconciled to its own momentary existence and limited vision by the sense of the infinite supplements that embosom it on every side.

    1952 May, George Santayana, “I Like to Be a Stranger”, in The Atlantic

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*h₁én
  2. Proto-Italic*en
  3. Proto-Italic*en-
  4. Latinin-
  5. Old Frenchen-
  6. Middle Englishen-
  7. Englishen-
  8. Englishem-
  9. Englishbosom
  10. Englishembosom

From em- + bosom.

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APA

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Chicago

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