English

Noun

empressement ‎(plural empressements)

1. (now archaic) Animated cordiality; friendliness, enthusiasm. [from 18th c.]
   • Edgar Allan Poe

     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 […]

French

Etymology

From empresser +‎ -ment.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɑ̃pʁɛsmɑ̃/

Noun

empressement m ‎(plural empressements)

1. attentiveness
2. eagerness, alacrity