compressure

Definitions

Compression.

archaic, countable, uncountable

Examples

“[W]hilſt he heſitated there, the criſis of pleaſure overtook him, and the cloſe compreſſure of the vvarm ſurrounding fold⟳, drevv from him the extatic guſh, even before mine vvas ready to meet⟳ it, kept up by the pain I had endur'd in the courſe of the engagement, from the unſufferable ſize of his vveapon, tho' it vvas not as yet in above half its length.”

Fanny Hill

“'Like⟳ the compressure of a coiled boa, Loathly, but irresistible.'”

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