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compressure en · NOUN

Etymology

From compress + -ure (compare etymology of pressure).

Meanings

1. (archaic, countable, uncountable) Compression.
   • 'Like the compressure of a coiled boa, Loathly, but irresistible.' 1836, Joanna Baillie, The Match, act 1, page 286:
   • [W]hilſt he heſitated there, the criſis of pleaſure overtook him, and the cloſe compreſſure of the vvarm ſurrounding fold, drevv from him the extatic guſh, even before mine vvas ready to meet it, kept up by the pain I had endur'd in the courſe of the engagement, from the unſufferable ſize of his vveapon, tho' it vvas not as yet in above half its length. 1749, [John Cleland], “[Letter the First]”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], volume I, London: […] [Thomas Parker] for G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] […], →OCLC, page 194:

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