marital embrace
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4.9
- noun
- After a long day at work, they shared a warm marital embrace on the couch.
Examples
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The couple often finds comfort in a loving marital embrace after arguing.
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During the wedding ceremony, the couple exchanged vows and sealed their promises with a tender marital embrace.
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That Mary and Joseph never participated in the marital embrace does not mean that their union was invalid.
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Synonyms
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1.0
An act of holding someone close to show love or friendship
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A close hug that shows love or gives comfort
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3.0
A very strong, tight hold with your arms around someone
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A tight warm hug
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2.5
A close hug made by putting your arms around someone to show affection
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8.2
A warm hug people give to show affection
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Holding someone in your arms to show affection
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2.5
A warm welcome you give by opening your arms to hold someone
Antonyms
How Affectionate
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly and transparently composed from 'marital' (relating to marriage) + 'embrace' (a hug), so a learner who knows both words will infer it means a hug between married partners. This adjective+noun construction follows regular compositional patterns common across languages, making it immediately understandable to B1 learners.
Etymology
Marital embrace, comes from two simple words: marital, meaning 'about being married', and embrace, meaning 'a close hug'. The image is of a couple holding each other after their vows or in quiet moments, so the phrase means 'a loving hug between married partners'.