embrace

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
embrace/ɪmˈbreɪs/

▶verb

• 1 hold closely in one's arms, especially as a sign of affection.

• 2 accept or support (a belief or change) willingly.

• 3 include or contain.

▶noun an act of embracing.

– derivatives
embraceable adjective,
embracement noun,
embracer noun.

– origin ME: from OFr. embracer, based on L. in- ‘in’ + bracchium ‘arm’.