Meaning of empressement | Babel Free

Definitions

Animated cordiality; friendliness, enthusiasm.

archaic, countable, uncountable

Examples

“He grasped my hand with a nervous empressement.”

“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 […]”

CEFR level