different between including vs embracing

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n?klu?d??/, /???klu?d??/

Preposition

including

1. Such as, among which; introducing one or more parts of the group or topic just mentioned.
   1. (rare, nonstandard) Introducing a finite clause.
      • 2006 March 27, John Whiting (of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLC), transcribed in The 2006 Budget: Fourth Report of [United Kingdom House of Commons Treasury Committee] Session 2005-06, Volume II, ?ISBN, page 20:

        I have always argued that it is one that deserves a thorough-going policy review, which might come to all sorts of conclusions, including it is doing what the Government of the day wants it to.

Alternative forms

• incl. (abbreviation)

Translations

Verb

including

1. Present participle and gerund of include.

References

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English

Pronunciation

Verb

embracing

1. present participle of embrace

Noun

embracing (plural embracings)

1. The act of embracing (in various senses).
   • 1719, Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe, London: W. Taylor, p. 222,^[1]

     There are some secret moving Springs in the Affections, which when they are set a going by some Object in view, or be it some Object, though not in view, yet rendred present to the Mind by the Power of Imagination, that Motion carries out the Soul by its Impetuosity to such violent eager embracings of the Object, that the Absence of it is insupportable.

   • 1849, Charles Frederick Briggs, Holden's Dollar Magazine (volumes 3-4, page 240)

     Ay, in so doing you will but voluntarily throw yourself into her arms, and, with fond embracings, proclaim yourself a willing servant; do not, in the wild endeavor to win fame, strive to crush her power!

   • 1953, C. S. Lewis, The Silver Chair, London: Geoffrey Bles, Chapter 15,^[2]

     […] a moment later such cheering and shouting, such jumps and reels of joy, such hand-shakings and kissings and embracings of everybody by everybody else broke out that the tears came into Jill’s eyes.

Anagrams

• cambering