impresse

Noun

impress (plural impresses)

1. The act of impressing.
2. An impression; an impressed image or copy of something.
   • This weak impress of love is as a figure / Trenched in ice.c. 1590–1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Two Gentlemen of Verona”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and...
3. A stamp or seal used to make an impression.
4. An impression on the mind, imagination etc.
   • Such admonitions, in the English of the Authorized Version, left an indelible impress on imaginations nurtured on the Bible […]2007, John Burrow, A History of Histories, Penguin, published 2009, page 187
5. Characteristic; mark of distinction; stamp.
   • we have God surveying the works of the creation, and leaving this general impress or character upon them1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London
6. A heraldic device; an impresa.
   • 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 IMPRESS1869, John Edwin Cussans, Handbook of Heraldry

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