Meaning of Impress | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The act of impressing.
2. An impression; an impressed image or copy of something.
3. A stamp or seal used to make an impression.
4. An impression on the mind, imagination etc.
5. Characteristic; mark of distinction; stamp.
6. A heraldic device; an impresa.
7. The act of impressing, or taking by force for the public service; compulsion to serve; also, that which is impressed.

Equivalents

Examples

“This weak impress of love is as a figure / Trenched in ice.”

“We know that you were pressed for money, that you took an impress of the keys which your brother held […]”

“Such admonitions, in the English of the Authorized Version, left an indelible impress on imaginations nurtured on the Bible […]”

“we have God surveying the works of the creation, and leaving this general impress or character upon them”

“As he himself [Sir Nigel Gresley] would doubtless have wished, he died in harness; only a few weeks previously he had been present at the first public view of his latest design, the Bantam Cock, which, like most of his products, bore all over it the impress of his personality.”

“It commonly occurred that Knights who , on entering the Lists , wished to conceal their identity , would assume a Device with an allusive Motto , which was designated an IMPRESS”

“To describe […] emblazon'd Shields, / Impreses quaint.”

“Why such impress of shipwrights?”

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