empressement

• He had noticed that the latter's manner, though perfectly civil, was very cold compared with the empressement which the former had exhibited He doesn't like your countrymen," said Harry, "and nothing can vex him more than to be told, what is literally the truth, that he resembles an Englishman in many respects. —  The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851
• He grasped my hand with a nervous empressement which alarmed me, and strengthened the suspicions already entertained. —  The Short-story
• He had been much absent from her; had not abridged those periods of absence as he might have done; had, indeed, been but an indifferent lover, if eagerness and empressement are necessary to a lover's character. —  The Bertrams
• Jack wanted to fly and fall at her feet, but he couldn’t, of course—he was tied to her hyphenated cousin But Holloway went forward and greeted her with all possible empressement, and the man who was so much his junior felt an awful weight of youth upon him as he saw her led out of his sight I think dear Betty will marry Mr. Holloway," her cousin chirped blandly, thus settling her fate forever. —  The Rejuvenation of Aunt Mary
• She was playing with an empressement which could not fail to command attention Tryon Dunham, standing just behind the Judge, was transfixed with amazement. —  The Mystery of Mary

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