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empressement en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ɒmˈpɹɛs.mənt/
• /ɑ̃ˈpɹɛs.mɒ̃/

Etymology

From French empressement.

Meanings

1. (archaic, countable, uncountable) Animated cordiality; friendliness, enthusiasm.
   • So Macmaster saw – almost physically – Sir Reginald Ingleby perceiving the empressement with which his valued subordinate was treated in the drawing-rooms of Mrs. Leamington, Mrs. Cressy, the Hon. Mrs. de Limoux […] 1924, Ford Madox Ford, Some Do Not… (Parade's End), Penguin, published 2012, page 13:
   • He grasped my hand with a nervous empressement. 1846, Edgar Allan Poe, The Gold-Bug:

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