expressure

English

Noun

expressure (countable and uncountable, plural expressures)

(obsolete) Expression; utterance; representation.
- c. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act III, scene iii]:
  An operation more divine
  Than breath or pen can give expressure to.

Latin

Participle

expressūre

vocative masculine singular of expressūrus

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