embracement

noun5

1. •
   An act of encircling another with one's arms and pulling them to one's chest, a hug.

   • Kinde wordes, and mutuall talke, makes our greefe greater. Therefore with dum imbracement let vs part, — 1594
2. •
   (figurative) An act of embracing, full acceptance.

   • […] what Destiny has ordered I am resolved with an adventerous Resolution to subscribe to, and with a contented imbracement enjoy it. — 1666
3. •
   Synonym of embrace.
4. •
   (figurative) The state of embracing, inclusion.

   • The question of flies—using that, to a woodsman, eminently connotive word in its wide embracement of mosquitoes, sand-flies, deer-flies, black flies, and midges—is one much mooted in the craft. — 1903
5. •
   (figurative) An enclosure.

   • […] the Sun […] of himself, ever shineth and seeth all things, if his Beams be not stopt with a Cloud or some other thick imbracement […] — 1664