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Definition of Busying
1. busy [v] - See also: busy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Busying
Literary usage of Busying
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Practical View of the Prevailing Religious System of Professed Christians by William Wilberforce, Daniel Wilson (1829)
"... to see men thus busying themselves in vain speculations of an arrogant curiosity,
and trifling with their dearest, their everlasting interests. ..."
2. History of the Chicago Police from the Settlement of the Community to the by John Joseph Flinn, John Elbert Wilkie (1887)
"... so well that it was instantly adopted, and this is the one in use by patrol
wagons everywhere. In the meantime Lieut. Bonfield had been busying him- ..."
3. A Dictionary of the Welsh Language: Explained in English; with Numerous by William Owen Pughe (1832)
"(Irin) Mutual striving ; contention; variance; the act of busying one's self.
t). a. ... (ymdrin) A mutually striving; self-busying. ..."
4. The All-Father by Philip Hankinson Newnham (1891)
"Casting all your anxiety upon Him,' wrote the Apostle, * for He is ever busying
Himself over you.' ' Ever busying Himself over us '! ..."
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