Meanings
adjectiveembracive (comparative more embracive, superlative most embracive)
comparative more embracive · superlative most embracive
- Disposed to embrace, or fond of caressing.
Not less kind in her way, though less expansive and embracive, was Madame de Montcontour to my wife, as I found on comparing notes with that young woman, when the day's hospitalities were ended.
1854, Arthur Pendennis [pseudonym; William Makepeace Thackeray], The Newcomes: Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], →OCLC
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