preoccupancy

Example Sentences

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It is essential that similar preoccupancy should not become accepted as a species of jurisprudence among the people comprising the League.

From Time Magazine Archive

With this entire preoccupancy of the ground, and these common though unworthy dispositions in its favor, the wonder is, that it is not more popular.

From Thoughts on African Colonization by Garrison, William Lloyd

A preoccupancy with religious characteristics assists those who are interested in the problem of sublimation.

From Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets by Hartley, Marsden