Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of imposing or of laying on: as, the imposure of a decree.
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- noun rare The act of
imposing .
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Examples
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ASHCROFT: The marketplace of ideas is the place of exposure, and the place of terrorism is the place of imposing or imposure.
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"The Gentle Armour" is a playful adaptation of a French fabliau "Les Trois Chevaliers et la Chemise," which tells of a knight whose hard-hearted lady set him the task of fighting his two rivals in the lists, armed only in her smock; and, in contrition for this harsh imposure, went to the altar with her faithful champion, wearing only the same bloody sark as her bridal garment.
A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century 1886
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