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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

unembracing en · ADJ

Etymology

From un- + embracing.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Not embracing.
    • Since my days as a student, the city has encroached upon Salpetriere so it no longer has its country-estate disguise. The stiff, unembracing stone arms spread out from the domed chapel, an ironic center of a hell realm. 2006, Kate Horsley, Black Elk in Paris, page 3:
    • My brother, if ever I shall seem reserved and unembracing to thee, still thou must ever trust the heart of Isabel, and permit no doubt to cross thee there. 1852, Herman Melville, Pierre; or, The Ambiguities: