Definition of "embracing" []

• Present participle of embrace. (verb)

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• "He mentioned that he was particularly glad that I had used the term "embracing" in the title, and enthusiastically agreed that we need not just a political settlement but open-hearted reconciliation based on acknowledgment that both Israel and Palestine have legitimate narratives and both communities have co-created the current mess."
• "(_Philippians_, pp. 171-178) has shewn with great fulness of proof that 'the household of Caesar' was a term embracing a vast number of persons, not only in Rome but in the provinces, all of whom were either actual or former slaves of the"
• "Dr. Lazarus, the chief of the medical department, tells us that the "river people," a term embracing those who own the temples on the stream -- just as we would say the "steel rail" or the "pig metal" people at home -- are very much depressed, complaining bitterly that the revenues have fallen away."