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Definition of Obsesses
1. obsess [v] - See also: obsess
Lexicographical Neighbors of Obsesses
Literary usage of Obsesses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings by Classical Association (Great Britain) (1906)
"Ille furens—et saeua louis sic minima poscunt— Deserit obsesses colics.
The conjunction here is noteworthy. In any less subtle writer we should ..."
2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"He dwells on the plan until it obsesses him. He argues that if great conquerors,
like Napoleon and Alexander the Great, who had succeeded in winning fame ..."
3. The Land of Little Rain by Mary Hunter Austin (1903)
"The crowds of them, the airy spread of sepals, the pale purity of the petal spurs,
the quivering swing of bloom, obsesses the sense. ..."
4. American Public Health Protection by Henry Bixby Hemenway, Edwin Frederick Bowers, Mary Sewall Gardner (1916)
"He is a knight errant, armed cap-a-pie in defense of his ladye, — the particular
fad that for the moment obsesses him. We know; for have we not seen these ..."
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