empressementとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /ɑ̃ˈpɹɛs.mɒ̃/, /ɒmˈpɹɛs.mənt/

名詞

empressement (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 empressements)

1. (archaic) Animated cordiality; friendliness, enthusiasm. [from 18th c.]
   • 1846, Edgar Allan Poe, The Gold-Bug

     He grasped my hand with a nervous empressement.

   • 1924, Ford Madox Ford, Some Do Not…, Penguin 2012 (Parade's End), p. 13:

     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 […]