emprise
noun
em·prise em-ˈprīz 
: an adventurous, daring, or chivalric enterprise
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Someone who engages in emprises undertakes much, and the word became established in English with the chivalrous undertakings of brave knights. Fourteenth-century author Geoffrey Chaucer used emprise to describe one such knight in "The Franklin's Tale" (one of the stories in The Canterbury Tales): "There was a knight that loved and went through pains / To serve a lady in his best way; / And many a labor, many a great emprise, / He wrought for his lady before she was won."
Synonyms
- adventure
- experience
- exploit
- gest
- geste
- happening
- time
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Example Sentences
he always seems to be having the sort of high emprise that most of us experience only in our dreams
Word History
Etymology
Middle English, undertaking, from Anglo-French, from emprendre to undertake, from Vulgar Latin *imprehendere, from Latin in- + prehendere to seize — more at get
First Known Use
13th century, in the meaning defined above
emprises
noun
as in experiences
an exciting or noteworthy event that one experiences firsthand he always seems to be having the sort of high emprise that most of us experience only in our dreams Synonyms & Similar Words
Relevance
- experiences
- adventures
- happenings
- exploits
- gestes
- times
- actions
- tests
- escapades
- ordeals
- explorations
- baptisms
- risks
- gests
- tribulations
- enterprises
- acts
- doings
- ventures
- expeditions
- deeds
- performances
- missions
- episodes
- trials
- occasions
- larks
- stunts
- feats
- ploys
- quests
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
- downers
- drags
- busts
- bores
- bummers