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emprise

[em-prahyz] / ɛmˈpraɪz /


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The Elizabethan age, big with luxury, vanity, conquest and high emprise, also produced the English miniature.

From Time Magazine Archive

At the moment when the tension becomes unbearable, the young man at the controls, face ashen with anxiety and exhaustion, slips on his helmet, slips the leash of fate and high emprise.

From Time Magazine Archive

Thus was concluded the twelfth and final year of an archeological emprise which has revealed much about the Sumerians, oldest of known civilized peoples.

From Time Magazine Archive

"Without you we would have learned nothing of this high emprise."

From Historic Tales, Vol 14 (of 15) The Romance of Reality by Morris, Charles

Some new ichor stirred in Maseden’s veins, firing his spirit to emprise.

From His Unknown Wife by Tracy, Louis