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empressement
 
SYLLABICATION:em·presse·ment
PRONUNCIATION:  äprs-mä
NOUN: Effusive cordiality.
ETYMOLOGY:French, from (s')empresser, to be eager : en-, in; see en–1 + presser, to press (from Old French; see press1).
 
 
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