The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.
Wiktionary
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, "