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‖ empressé, a.|ɑ̃prɛse|
[Fr., pa. pple. of empresser, f. em- = en- + presser press v.1]
Eager, zealous.
1837J. F. Cooper Recoll. Eur. II. ii. 42 All the French women were exceedingly empressées in their manner towards the Great Unknown. 1878L. W. M. Lockhart Mine is Thine II. xvii. 23 Be low, be depressed, but, at the right moment, empressé and earnest. 1906W. De Morgan Joseph Vance xxxiii. 325 ‘Was he very empressé in his manner?’ I asked. ‘Spooney, do you mean?’ |