Noun : to read with engrossment. From Dictionary.com.
Swift was in part satirizing the engrossment of his. From Wordnik.com. [COSMIC VOYAGES] Reference
"Shirley" was filled in at the time of its engrossment. From Wordnik.com. [The Bay State Monthly — Volume 2, No. 2, November, 1884] Reference
Thus amended, the bill was ordered to engrossment by a vote of 24 to. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880. Vol. 2 (of 2) Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens] Reference
The following is the vote, in the SENATE, on the engrossment of the bill. From Wordnik.com. [The Fugitive Slave Law and Its Victims Anti-Slavery Tracts No. 18] Reference
Ms. Portman stood by affecting engrossment, but with a slightly strained smile. From Wordnik.com. [Mr. Meacham's Magazine] Reference
Such an efficacious outlook fosters intrinsic interest and deep engrossment in activities. From Wordnik.com. [Self-Efficacy - Albert Bandura] Reference
The deliverance from this evil state is possible only through the extinc - tion of self-engrossment. From Wordnik.com. [PROBLEM OF EVIL] Reference
Finlay, indeed, it may be confessed at once, he and not his message was her engrossment from the beginning. From Wordnik.com. [The Imperialist] Reference
Apart from the rest of this magical Universe, just see what such engrossment is intended to prevent you seeing. From Wordnik.com. [On Considering the Prime Use of Paper] Reference
Evelyn drew me away, wanting me to identify the stars, turning aside as boring our engrossment with shifting winds. From Wordnik.com. [Second Wind]
And if a touch of the shadows on Nattie's face sometimes crept over his own, she, in her self-engrossment, did not observe it. From Wordnik.com. [Wired Love A Romance of Dots and Dashes] Reference
As a matter of fact Donaldson always attracted more interest in feminine eyes than, in his self engrossment, he was ever aware. From Wordnik.com. [The Seventh Noon] Reference
The engrossment of the bill for a third reading found its opponents still unweary in their efforts to obstruct or defeat its passage. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 6, 1921] Reference
Ueda does an exceptional job in creating an area where most people use games as escapism, Ueda's creations are more of emotional engrossment. From Wordnik.com. [The Mysterious Appeal Of Ueda's Worlds] Reference
Joe's response showed his entire self-engrossment. From Wordnik.com. [K] Reference
Ethel's expression did then pierce her self-engrossment. From Wordnik.com. [The Privet Hedge] Reference
Both terms express the engrossment of the self in an object. From Wordnik.com. [Democracy and Education: an introduction to the philosophy of education] Reference
In 1876 it was lost by one vote; and in 1880 lost on engrossment. From Wordnik.com. [History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III (of III)] Reference
In a moment all the self-engrossment of her bashfulness was gone. From Wordnik.com. [The Emigrant Trail] Reference
In his engrossment he fails to take account of various ominous signs. From Wordnik.com. [The Wagnerian Romances] Reference
Genius stood in the place of painstaking engrossment in a single task. From Wordnik.com. [Historical Essays] Reference
Sleep, food, fresh air, everything was forgotten in the engrossment of work. From Wordnik.com. [In the Heart of the Vosges And Other Sketches by a "Devious Traveller"] Reference
Later in the day, just as the bill was passing its engrossment, Mr. Farquhar of. From Wordnik.com. [Twenty Years of Congress, Volume 2 (of 2) From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860] Reference
He is all in the game with the intense engrossment of a lad I knew, who, while playing. From Wordnik.com. [Essays on Scandinavian Literature] Reference
Absorption, engrossment, full concern with subject matter for its own sake, nurture it. From Wordnik.com. [Democracy and Education: an introduction to the philosophy of education] Reference
The shell of her old self-engrossment cracked, and the call of a wider life came to her. From Wordnik.com. [The Emigrant Trail] Reference
Nature held him aloof, an atom leaving no mark upon it, an intruder on its musing self-engrossment. From Wordnik.com. [Treasure and Trouble Therewith A Tale of California] Reference
Leonard was chagrined at her ignoring of his love-suit, and in his self-engrossment answered sulkily. From Wordnik.com. [The Man] Reference
It was further delayed by the engrossment in his own affairs of Ferdinand, King of Bohemia and Hungary. From Wordnik.com. [The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 09] Reference
O manlike man that thus could phrase divorce that from her heart's engrossment had cut her life asunder!. From Wordnik.com. [This Freedom] Reference
Yes, in all the tumultuous pride and engrossment of that, there was no place -- how could there be place?. From Wordnik.com. [This Freedom] Reference
Each period, a class of seventh graders set to work finishing Mr. Snicket's story with, mostly, quiet engrossment. From Wordnik.com. [BookMoot] Reference
These passions, not yet experienced when I lost Isora, had afforded me at that period a ready comfort and a sure engrossment. From Wordnik.com. [Devereux — Complete] Reference
Charlotte's engrossment in her new life, her eagerness to please her master, was a contemptible weakness to this embittered heart. From Wordnik.com. [Emily Brontë] Reference
But their very engrossment with the story of their ancestors checked in later generations the impulse to write about their own times. From Wordnik.com. [Josephus] Reference
What he had made the money for, he could not tell, except that the engrossment of the struggle had helped him to forget his wretchedness. From Wordnik.com. [At Pinney's Ranch 1898] Reference
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