Encountered love embracing people in remembrance (7)
I believe the answer is:
memento
'remembrance' is the definition.
(thesaurus)
'encountered love embracing people' is the wordplay.
'encountered' becomes 'met' ('meet' can be a synonym of 'encounter').
'love' becomes 'o' (love means zero in tennis).
'embracing' indicates putting letters inside.
'people' becomes 'men' (men are people).
'met'+'o'='meto'
'meto' placed around 'men' is 'MEMENTO'.
'in' acts as a link.
(Other definitions for memento that I've seen before include "Object kept as a souvenir" , "Souvenir, reminder of past events" , "Keepsake or souvenir" , "trophy" , "This reminds" .)