AMPLECT

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ETYMOLOGY
from Latin amplecti to embrace, clasp, from amb- about + plect-ĕre to plait, twine

EXAMPLE
From: State Papers
Published under the Authority of Her Majesty's Commission, Volume VI
King Henry the Eighth, Part V., Printed 1849
CXIV. King Henry VIII to Tunstall and Sir Richard Wyngfield (30 March, 1525)