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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