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Empressement

Empressement \Em`presse`ment"\, n. [F., fr s'empresser to hasten.] Demonstrative warmth or cordiality of manner; display of enthusiasm.

He grasped my hand with a nervous empressement.
--Poe.

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empressement

n. (context now archaic English) Animated cordiality; friendliness, enthusiasm. (from 18th c.)

Usage examples of "empressement".

With her for the time, I was a little hero, and Venus never served Mars with greater empressement than that lovely girl did me that night.

I bowed with empressement, she made a gesture with her hand, I arose and joined her in her private box.

Edwards with an air of empressement which decidedly said to her companion, "