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Impression
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(n.) The act of impressing, or the state of being impressed; the communication of a stamp, mold, style, or character, by external force or by influence.
(2):
(n.) That which is impressed; stamp; mark; indentation; sensible result of an influence exerted from without.
(3):
(n.) That which impresses, or exercises an effect, action, or agency; appearance; phenomenon.
(4):
(n.) Influence or effect on the senses or the intellect hence, interest, concern.
(5):
(n.) An indistinct notion, remembrance, or belief.
(6):
(n.) Impressiveness; emphasis of delivery.
(7):
(n.) The pressure of the type on the paper, or the result of such pressure, as regards its appearance; as, a heavy impression; a clear, or a poor, impression; also, a single copy as the result of printing, or the whole edition printed at a given time.
(8):
(n.) In painting, the first coat of color, as the priming in house painting and the like.
(9):
(n.) A print on paper from a wood block, metal plate, or the like.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Impression'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/i/impression.html. 1828.
