instressn.

1868 G. M. Hopkins Jrnls. & Papers (1959) 127 His [sc. Parmenides'] feeling for instress, for the flush and fore~drawn, and for inscape is most striking.

1875 G. M. Hopkins Jrnls. & Papers (1959) 263 Standing before the gateway I had an instress which only the true old work gives from the strong and noble inscape of the pointed-arch.

1944 W. H. Gardner G. M. Hopkins i. 11 In the vagaries of shape and colour presented by hills, clouds, glaciers and trees he discerns a recondite pattern—‘species or individually-distinctive beauty’—for which he coins the word ‘inscape’; and the sensation of inscape (or, indeed, of any vivid mental image) is called ‘stress’ or ‘instress’.

1948 W. A. M. Peters G. M. Hopkins i. 14 The original meaning of instress..is that stress or energy of being by which ‘all things are upheld’..and strive after continued existence.

c1873–4 G. M. Hopkins Note-bks. & Papers (1937) 226 You can without clumsiness instress, throw a stress on/a syllable so supported.

1876 G. M. Hopkins Wreck of Deutschland v, in Poems (1967) 53 His mystery must be instressed, stressed.

1881 G. M. Hopkins Note-bks. & Papers (1937) 349 This song of Lucifer's was a dwelling on his own beauty, an instressing of his own inscape.