Thesaurus / engrossment

engrossment

How to use engrossment in a sentence

But, at the information received, Newt forgot his wrath in the engrossment of a sudden idea.

In the tedious dulness of the three-days' voyage the dog becomes a topic, and his devotion to the fair-haired lady an engrossment.

PALMETTO-LEAVESHARRIET BEECHER STOWE

He missed her former feverish engrossment in the projected lecture series and wanted to bring her back to it.

NARCISSUSEVELYN SCOTT

The whole tendency of the age is towards cynicism, indifference, self-engrossment.

To care only for each other is selfishness for two, only one step removed from self-centered engrossment.

Then, gradually, into his self-engrossment there penetrated a conviction that all was not well between his father and his mother.

DANGEROUS DAYSMARY ROBERTS RINEHART

She was standing at the open window, in the stillness that tells of intense mental engrossment.

MOUNT MUSICE. OE. SOMERVILLE AND MARTIN ROSS

Charlotte's engrossment in her new life, her eagerness to please her master, was a contemptible weakness to this embittered heart.

EMILY BRONTA. MARY F. (AGNES MARY FRANCES) ROBINSON

Finlay, indeed, it may be confessed at once, he and not his message was her engrossment from the beginning.

THE IMPERIALIST(A.K.A. MRS. EVERARD COTES) SARA JEANNETTE DUNCAN

At Eton, in his time, the engrossment with classics was such as to keep out religious instruction!

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985