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compressures

compressures is the plural of compressure.

Meaning of compressure

Noun

compressure (countable and uncountable, plural compressures)

  1. (archaic) Compression.
    • [W]hilſt he heſitated there, the criſis of pleaſure overtook him, and the cloſe compreſſure of the vvarm ſurrounding fold, drevv from him the extatic guſh, even before mine vvas ready to meet it, kept up by the pain I had endur'd in the courſe of the engagement, from the unſufferable ſize of his...1749, [John Cleland], “[Letter the First]”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], volume I, London: […] [Thomas Parker] for G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] […], →OCLC, page 194

Questions about compressures

What is compressures the plural of?
Compressures is the plural of compressure.

Words near compressures in the dictionary

  1. compressoria
  2. compressorium
  3. compressorless
  4. compressors
  5. compressure
  6. compressures
  7. comprest
  8. comprimario
  9. comprimarios
  10. comprint
  11. comprinted

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