Impressment is valid Scrabble Word

Is impressment a scrabble word?
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11 letters word
17 points in Scrabble
21 points in WWF

Definitions for IMPRESSMENT in dictionary:

NOUN:

the act of seizing for public use or of impressing into public service
The act of seizing for public use, or of impressing into public service; compulsion to serve; as, the impressment of provisions or of sailors.
the act of coercing someone into government service
the act of seizing for public use or of impressing into public service.

Words related to IMPRESSMENT

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Words that contain IMPRESSMENT

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How to use IMPRESSMENT in a sentence

And the necessity for flogging was generally believed to be directly referable to the impressment of such crowds of dissatisfied men.
Only by the most extreme measures, by impressment and the release of criminals willing to accompany the expedition in order to get out of jail, were crews finally provided.
The continuance of the war will fix the habit generally, and out of the evils of impressment and of the orders of council, a great blessing for us will grow.
Her orders of council will no doubt be taken care of by the allied powers, and, war ceasing, her impressment of our seamen ceases of course.
But I consider it as an armistice only, because no security is provided against the impressment of our seamen.
When the British treaty of 180- arrived, without any provision against the impressment of our seamen, I determined not to ratify it.
The most exasperating was the impressment of American seamen to serve in the English navy.
On sea and land we settled the question of impressment before negotiations were commenced at Ghent.
His connection with the navy had also led him to be keenly sensitive to the injustice and indignities connected with the impressment of seamen.
IMPRESSMENT THE RIGHT OF SEARCH LETTERS TO GENERAL CASS ON THE TREATY OF WASHINGTON THE HUeLSEMANN LETTER DANIEL WEBSTER AS A MASTER OF ENGLISH STYLE.

Vessels suffer from the weakening of their crews, and voyages are often delayed, and not unfrequently broken up, by subtraction from the number of necessary hands by impressment.
Seamen, letter of Daniel Webster on impressment of, 658.
The right of search and the right of impressment were simply the rights of the powerful over the weak.
Impressment was not mentioned in the treaty which concluded that war, but it ended at that time.
It left impressment totally unsettled, simply because we were still too weak to be ready to fight England profitably on that theme.
It is one of the novels which specially suggests a comparison between Marryat and Smollett, both authors having described acts of impressment with vigour and indignation.
To escape impressment, or to obtain higher wages, many of her seamen enlisted in our service.
It did not even gain the abolition of impressment in so many words.
In those days the barbarous custom of impressment into the Royal Navy was in full operation.
He constantly protested against his impressment, but without avail.
It is in vain to set up the plea of necessity, and to allege that she cannot exist without the impressment of HER seamen.

Similar words containing PRESSM without suffix ent and without prefix im

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