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impressment

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im·press·ment  (m-prsmnt)
n.
The act or policy of seizing people or property for public service or use.
impressment [ɪmˈprɛsmənt]
n
(Government, Politics & Diplomacy) the commandeering or conscription of things or men into government service
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Noun1.impressment - the act of coercing someone into government service
impress
seizure - the taking possession of something by legal process
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I fancied she was jealous even of the saucepan on it; and I have reason to know that she took its impressment into the service of boiling my egg and broiling my bacon, in dudgeon; for I saw her, with my own discomfited eyes, shake her fist at me once, when those culinary operations were going on, and no one else was looking.
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He opened it with much impressment, assumed, of course, and showed a great bundle of white flowers.
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