† depressuren.
/dɪˈprɛʃ(j)ʊə/ Obsolete.
1. The action of pressing down; = depression n. 1.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > causing to come or go down > [noun] > pressing or lowering
depressing1648
depression1656
depressure1700
1700 E. Tyson in Philos. Trans. 1699 (Royal Soc.) 21 432 That this depressure happened whilst the Bones were Cartilaginous.
2. concrete. A depressed or sunken part of a surface; = depression n. 3.
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the world > space > shape > unevenness > condition or fact of receding > [noun] > action of making indentation > an indentation on a surface
hollowc897
printa1387
impression1398
puncha1430
dent1565
dint1590
dinge1611
doke1615
impressurea1616
depressure1626
depression1665
dawk1678
swage1680
indent1690
sinking1712
dunkle1788
indenture1793
delve1811
subsidation1838
indention1839
recess1839
indentation1847
incavation1852
deepening1859
sink1875
malleation1881
ding1922
1626 G. Sandys tr. Ovid Metamorphosis xiii. 278 The purple blood from that depressure fled.
1677 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Oxford-shire 106 Those uniform eminencies and depressures, those waved and transverse lineations.
1729 Evelyn's Terra 22 in Sylva (ed. 5) To fill up the Hollows and Depressures of the Ground.
3. figurative. The action of putting down, bringing low, or humbling; debasement; = depression n. 4, 5.
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the mind > emotion > humility > humiliation > [noun]
bismerc893
humiliationc1386
lowinga1398
dejectionc1450
avale?a1513
depression?1531
embasing1551
abasement1561
debasement1593
mortification1598
exinanitiona1631
demissiona1638
dejectment1656
depressure1656
dismounting1677
letting down1827
take-down1858
snubbing1861
scoring1893
deflation1958
1656 H. Jeanes Mixture Scholasticall Divinity 60 Earthly mindedness, though it doth no' quite degrade the soule of its immortality yet it is a great depressure and embasement thereof.
a1774 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued (1777) III. i. 364 To give them an eminence..above others, which is as well answered by the depressure of every thing else above them, as by their own advancement.
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