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em·prise

 (ĕm-prīz′)
n.
1. A chivalrous or adventurous undertaking.
2. Chivalrous daring or prowess.

[Middle English, from Old French, from feminine past participle of emprendre, to undertake, from Vulgar Latin *imprēndere : Latin in-, in; see en-1 + Latin prehendere, prēndere, to take, grasp; see ghend- in Indo-European roots.]
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emprise

(ɛmˈpraɪz)
n
1. a chivalrous or daring enterprise; adventure
2. chivalrous daring or prowess
[C13: from Old French, from emprendre to undertake; see enterprise]
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em•prise

or em•prize

(ɛmˈpraɪz)

n.
1. an adventurous enterprise.
2. knightly daring or prowess.
[1250–1300; Middle English < Anglo-French, Old French, n. use of feminine of empris, past participle of emprendre to undertake]
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emprise

noun
An exciting, often hazardous undertaking:
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Fain am I to stagger to this emprise under the weightiest words of the dictionary.
Ah, go warily, fair sir; this is a mightier emprise than I wend."
But considering that it would not become him, nor be right, to begin any new emprise until he had established Micomicona in her kingdom, he was constrained to hold his peace and wait quietly to see what would be the upshot of the proceedings of those same travellers; one of whom found the youth they were seeking lying asleep by the side of a muleteer, without a thought of anyone coming in search of him, much less finding him.
He had given me hints, which I had been too dense to take, and he had certainly made more than one attempt to deter me from accompanying him on this fatal emprise; had he been more explicit, I might have made it my business to deter him.
Les formes traditionnelles de reception d'images (antenne, paraboles...) ont ete longtemps a l'honneur avant d'etre detronees par l'invasion du phenomene wifi et autres variantes du streaming qui developpent aujourd'hui une veritable emprise du paysage audiovisuel.
Les deux hommes, brocardes par leurs adversaires comme des "revenants", font valoir leur experience et se posent en rempart contre une emprise islamiste sur le pouvoir.
Les forces de securite irakiennes ont resserre, samedi dernier, leur emprise sur la ville de Fallouja, occupee par le groupe terroriste Daech, et repris certaines zones apres de violents combats.
Pour l'occasion, les participants marocains ont fait etalage de toutes ces singularites nationales, en matiere de parures vestimentaires, de delices culinaires, de prouesses artistiques populaires, de ceremonieux aux aromes de henne et de the a la menthe, de calligraphie chatoyantes...Toutes ces seductions ont exerce une emprise toute particulieres sur les cheques qui prirent d'assaut le rayon marocain aussi radieux que rayonnant, au coeur duquel s'affairent, avec enthousiasme, les professionnels marocains.
Les conservateurs ont renforce leur emprise sur le Parlement en Iran a l'issue d'elections legislatives boycottees par les reformateurs, mais sans faire apparaEtre clairement de vainqueurs entre partisans et opposants au president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
La tenue de cette reunion n'est pas fortuite etant donne la situation dans les pays de la region et la necessite d'adopter une strategie en mesure de renforcer la lutte contre le terrorisme, a l'image de l'offensive lancee en Irak et en Syrie pour deloger les groupes terroristes et liberer les populations de leur emprise. Daech vit-il ces derniers jours dans la region ?