Definition of Preoccupying

1. Verb. (present participle of preoccupy) ¹

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Definition of Preoccupying

1. preoccupy [v] - See also: preoccupy

Lexicographical Neighbors of Preoccupying

preocclusion
preoccupancies
preoccupancy
preoccupate
preoccupated
preoccupates
preoccupating
preoccupation
preoccupations
preoccupied
preoccupied name
preoccupied names
preoccupiedly
preoccupies
preoccupy
preoccupying
preocular
preominate
preon
preons
preop
preopening
preoperation
preoperational
preoperative
preoperatively
preopercula
preopercular
preoperculars
preoperculum

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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