ENGROSSMENT
\ɛnɡɹˈə͡ʊsmənt], \ɛnɡɹˈəʊsmənt], \ɛ_n_ɡ_ɹ_ˈəʊ_s_m_ə_n_t]\
Definitions of ENGROSSMENT
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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the mental state of being preoccupied by something
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the quality of being intent and concentrated; "the intentness of his gaze"
By Princeton University
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the mental state of being preoccupied by something
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the quality of being intent and concentrated; "the intentness of his gaze"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
By Oddity Software
By Noah Webster.
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The appropriation of things in the gross or in exorbitant quantities; exorbitant acquisition; as, "Engrossments of power and favor."-Swift the act of copying out in large fair characters; as, the engrossment of a deed: the copy of an instrument or writing made in large fair characters. Lord Clarendon: the state of being engrossed or occupied, or having one's attention wholly taken up: appropriation; absorption. "In the engrossment of her own ardent and devoted love."-Lord Lytton.
By Daniel Lyons
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Appropriation of things in the gross, exorbitant acquisition.
By Thomas Sheridan