Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The process of squeezing out.
  • noun Expression; utterance; representation.
  • noun Mark; impression.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun obsolete The act of expressing; expression; utterance; representation.

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  • noun obsolete expression; utterance; representation

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Examples

  • I will drop in his way some obscure epistles of love; wherein, by the colour of his beard, the shape of his leg, the manner of his gait, the expressure of his eye, forehead, and complexion, he shall find himself most feelingly personated.

    Twelfth Night; or, What You Will 2004

  • I will drop in his way some obscure epistles of love; wherein, by the colour of his beard, the shape of his leg, the manner of his gait, the expressure of his eye, forehead, and complexion, he shall find himself most feelingly personated.

    Act II. Scene III. Twelfth-Night; or, What You Will 1914

  • I will drop in his way some obscure epistles of love; wherein, by the colour of his beard, the shape of his leg, the manner of his gait, the expressure of his eye, forehead, and complexion, he shall find himself most feelingly personated.

    Twelfth Night; or What You Will 1601

  • 2549: Th 'expressure that it beares: Greene let it be,

    The Merry Wives of Windsor (1623 First Folio Edition) 1623

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