preoccupancy

How To Use preoccupancy In A Sentence

• A preoccupancy with religious characteristics assists those who are interested in the problem of sublimation. Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets
• The land was theirs by right of preoccupancy and by gift. The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, March, 1880
• Accordingly, when he sees her placed beyond his hope, he has no more trouble about her; but turns, and builds a true affection where, during the preoccupancy of his imagination, so many sweet and tender appeals have been made to his heart. Shakespeare His Life Art And Characters
• His youth was apparently much like mine, not a youth of athleticism so much as a preoccupancy with wonder and the imminence of beauty surrounding all things. Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets
• When I first wrote, thirty-five years ago, I attached great importance to preoccupancy, and fancied that a body of indigenous plants already fitted for every available station would prevent an invader, especially from, a quite foreign province, from having a chance of making good his settlement in a new country. Alfred Russel Wallace Letters and Reminiscences
• Did you get so caught up in the preoccupancy of a relationship that you lost who you were or were busy in life or career that you, like Adam and Eve, got lost in the garden putting fig leaf after fig leaf title, relationship, this accolade, this saying over you that you forgot who you were and what's life's about? CNN Transcript Nov 26, 2007
• When Mr. Manning called, and assisted her into the carriage, he observed an unusual preoccupancy of mind; but after a few desultory remarks she rallied, gave him her undivided attention, and seemed engrossed by his conversation. St. Elmo
• The preoccupancy of the country by such indigenous tribes may have checked the development of the placental Rodents and The Antiquity of Man