What is "embracements"

Usage examples of "embracements".

I conceived that I should be too unhappy were I deprived of the embracements of a woman.

Not corporeal beauty, nor the splendour of time, nor the radiance of the light, so pleasant to our eyes, nor the sweet melodies of songs of all kinds, nor the flagrant smell of flowers, and ointments, and spices, not manna and honey, not limbs pleasant to the embracements of flesh.