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Embosom v. t.

To take into, or place in, the bosom; to cherish; to foster. "Glad to embosom his affection."

To inclose or surround; to shelter closely; to place in the midst of something. "His house embosomed in the grove." "Some tender flower... Embosomed in the greenest glade."

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Etymology of 'Embosom'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Embosom" Quotes from Famous Books

... favour of the Viscount? But what estate on earth is so firm, that is not changeable, or what friendship is so constant, that is not dissolvable? Who would imagine this Viscount should be instrumental to his death, who had done him so faithful service, and to whom he had embosom'd his most secret thoughts? Yet so it was, for Sir Thomas, out of an unfeigned affection which he bare to the Viscount, diswaded him from a motion of a Marriage which was propounded betwixt him and the Lady Francis ...

— The Lives of the Most Famous English Poets (1687) • William Winstanley