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Impressment
- noun - the act of coercing someone into government service
Imprimaturs
- noun - formal and explicit approval; "a Democrat usually gets the union's endorsement"
Imprintings
- noun - a learning process in early life whereby species specific patterns of behavior are established
Imprisoning
- verb - confine as if in a prison; "His daughters are virtually imprisoned in their own house; he does not let them go out without a chaperone"
- lock up or confine, in or as in a jail; "The suspects were imprisoned without trial"; "the murderer was incarcerated for the rest of his life"
Improbation
- - The act of disapproving; disapprobation.
Improbatory
- - Implying, or tending to, improbation.
Impropriate
- - To appropriate to one's self; to assume.
Impropriety
- noun - a failure to observe standards or show due honesty or modesty; improper language, behavior, or character
- an act of undue intimacy
- an improper demeanor
- an indecent or improper act
- the condition of being improper
Improvement
- noun - a change for the better; progress in development
- a condition superior to an earlier condition; "the new school represents a great improvement"
- the act of improving something; "their improvements increased the value of the property"
Improvident
- adjective - not given careful consideration; "ill-considered actions often result in disaster"; "an ill-judged attempt"
- not provident; not providing for the future