empressement
English
Etymology
From French empressement.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɑ̃ˈpɹɛs.mɒ̃/, /ɒmˈpɹɛs.mənt/
Noun
empressement (countable and uncountable, plural empressements)
- (archaic) Animated cordiality; friendliness, enthusiasm. [from 18th c.]
- Edgar Allan Poe
- He grasped my hand with a nervous empressement.
- 1924, Ford Madox Ford, Some Do Not…, Penguin 2012 (Parade's End), p. 13:
- 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 […]
- Edgar Allan Poe
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɑ̃.pʁɛs.mɑ̃/
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Further reading
- “empressement” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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