Empson

[emp-suh n]

noun

William,1906–84, English critic and poet.

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Contemporary Examples of empson

Things turn out be more ambiguous than they looked (which Empson would have appreciated).
Why We Should Read "Israeli Army Fiction"
Raphael Magarik
June 21, 2012

Historical Examples of empson

The exclusion of Empson and Dudley from the pardon was more popular than the pardon itself.
Henry VIII.
A. F. Pollard
It is also one of the sources of Empson, which thus corresponds to Cousins or Cozens.
The Romance of Names
Ernest Weekley
I saved my minerals, but Empson lost part of his botanical collection.
Lives of the Engineers
Samuel Smiles
Empson tells me that Malthus is well pleased, which is a good sign.
Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay
George Otto Trevelyan
In that reign it married a relation of Empson's, did the great House of Vipont!
What Will He Do With It, Complete
Edward Bulwer-Lytton

British Dictionary definitions for empson

Empson

noun

Sir William. 1906–84, English poet and critic; author of Seven Types of Ambiguity (1930)

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