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English
Etymology
From compress + -ure (compare etymology of pressure).
Noun
compressure (countable and uncountable, plural compressures)
- (archaic) Compression.
1749, [John Cleland], “”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, volume I, London: for G. Fenton , →OCLC, page 194:[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 vveapon, tho' it vvas not as yet in above half its length.
1836, Joanna Baillie, The Match, act 1, page 286:'Like the compressure of a coiled boa,
Loathly, but irresistible.'
Latin
Participle
compressūre
- vocative masculine singular of compressūrus