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Imprinting

noun

A learning process in early life whereby species specific patterns of behavior are established.

Imprint

verb

(past & past part. imptrinted; pres. part. imprinting)

Establish or impress firmly in the mind. Synonym: form.

Mark or stamp with or as if with pressure. Synonym: impress.

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... involuntarily turned her face towards his. He hung back from imprinting the expected kiss: at which Betty started as if she had received a poignant wound. She moved away so suddenly that he hardly had time to follow her up the ...

— A Group of Noble Dames • Thomas Hardy

... eyes filled with tears; she did not say a word, but imprinting a kiss upon its soft plumage, she surrendered it at once, and the message was hurriedly fastened to its neck. The bird wheeled round and round in a few circles that widened in their diameter, and quickly sunk to an altitude in the comet's ...

— Off on a Comet • Jules Verne

... Lit. "imprinting track upon track," but it is better perhaps to avoid the language of ...

— The Sportsman - On Hunting, A Sportsman's Manual, Commonly Called Cynegeticus • Xenophon

... The count wiped the blood away with his handkerchief. Then he tried to revive her by imprinting long, passionate kisses upon her ...

— The Grandee • Armando Palacio Valds

... took her by the shoulders, and, imprinting a fatherly kiss on her brow, lifted the girl aloft and set her on the table; all clapped their hands and shouted "Bravo!" being charmed by the girl's figure and bearing, and more particularly by her Lithuanian ...

— Pan Tadeusz • Adam Mickiewicz

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