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instress

The English word “instress” has 2 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. In the philosophy of Gerard Manley Hopkins, the apprehension or realization of the inscape, or distinctive design, of an object.

verb

  1. To apprehend or realize the inscape, or distinctive design, of an object.
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