Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A mark produced by pressure; an impression.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A mark made by pressure; indentation; impression; stamp; dent.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Dent; impression.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete
dent ;impression
Etymologies
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Examples
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Not only the yearning love of God, but the conquering freedom of Man is finally attested by that blood-red seal which bears the impressure of a Cross.
Problems of Immanence: studies critical and constructive Joseph Warschauer
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The dark, immovable clouds were piled upon one another in giant masses -- so distinct and sharply cut, so rounded, that one almost saw the impressure of the fingers of some Titanic sculptor; and they hung low down, overwhelming, so that James could scarcely breathe.
The Hero 1919
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Soft! and the impressure her Lucrece, with which she uses to seal: tis my lady.
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It is usually, indeed, the minor poetry of an age which keeps most distinctly the "cicatrice and capable impressure" of a passing literary fashion.
A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century 1886
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III.v. 23 (303, 2) [The cicatrice and capable impressure] Cicatrice is here not very properly used; it is the scar of a wound.
Notes to Shakespeare — Volume 01: Comedies Samuel Johnson 1746
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Soft! and the impressure her Lucrece, with which she uses to seal: 'tis my lady.
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Soft! and the impressure her Lucrece, with which she uses to seal: ’tis my lady.
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