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Engrossment   /ɪngrˈoʊsmənt/   Listen
noun
Engrossment  n.  
1.
The act of engrossing; as, the engrossment of a deed. "Engrossments of power and favor."
2.
That which has been engrossed, as an instrument, legislative bill, goods, etc.





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"Engrossment" Quotes from Famous Books



... gently behind me. What mystery was there in this woman's life? This listlessness, this strange self-engrossment and stranger mania about people long dead, this indifference and desire to annoy towards her husband—did it all mean that Alice Oke had loved or still loved some one who was not the master of Okehurst? And his melancholy, his preoccupation, the something ...
— Hauntings • Vernon Lee
... Miss Ethel's expense. She had bargained for food, and food was there; and there was an end of it. But the front-door bell rang, and something in Miss Ethel's expression did then pierce her self-engrossment. ...
— The Privet Hedge • J. E. Buckrose
... openly manifested their derision for the kill-joy and the skeleton who had returned to spoil their festival. Tasso, querulous as he was about his own share in the disagreeables of existence, remained wholly unsympathetic to the trials of his fellow-creatures. Self-engrossment closed him in ...
— Renaissance in Italy, Volumes 1 and 2 - The Catholic Reaction • John Addington Symonds


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