empressement
English edit
Etymology edit
From French empressement.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
empressement (countable and uncountable, plural empressements)
- (archaic) Animated cordiality; friendliness, enthusiasm. [from 18th c.]
- 1846, Edgar Allan Poe, The Gold-Bug:
- He grasped my hand with a nervous empressement.
- 1924, Ford Madox Ford, Some Do Not… (Parade's End), Penguin, published 2012, page 13:
- So Macmaster saw – almost physically – Sir Reginald Ingleby perceiving the empressement with which his valued subordinate was treated in the drawing-rooms of Mrs. Leamington, Mrs. Cressy, the Hon. Mrs. de Limoux […]
French edit
Etymology edit
From empresser (“to hurry; to hasten”) + -ment.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
empressement m (plural empressements)
Further reading edit
- “empressement”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.