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Definition of Preoccupying
1. preoccupy [v] - See also: preoccupy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Preoccupying
Literary usage of Preoccupying
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1876)
"If it is true that the relics of preoccupying races, now scattered over the State,
are traces of two distinct peoples, it is obvious that either the older ..."
2. Seventeen: A Tale of Youth and Summer Time and the Baxter Family, Especially by Booth Tarkington (1916)
"And upon another subject preoccupying both Mr. Parcher and William, ...
The preoccupying subject was the imminence of Miss Pratt's departure;— neither Mr. ..."
3. George Eliot's Works by George Eliot (1894)
"She did not move about; the prospects begotten by disappointment were too
oppressively preoccupying; she threw herself into the shadiest corner of a settee, ..."
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