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Definition of Engrossingly
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Engrossingly
Literary usage of Engrossingly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1920)
"An engrossingly powerful full length novel by a writer new to America but near
the top of the ladder in England. 1. "Done with the skill of a real artist. ..."
2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1898)
"The museum of science is that form of the museum which now engrossingly attracts
notice, because this is the moment of •its highest development, ..."
3. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H Warner (1902)
"And so Betje was efficiently superintended; none but she knew how engrossingly.
And evening after evening, the cuckoo stepped over his threshold, ..."
4. The Edinburgh Review by Sydney Smith (1858)
"And from 1834 to 1838, he was engrossingly engaged in those developments of his
previous electrical researches, which resulted in the electric telegraph. ..."
5. The Century (1902)
"In a score of other poems, also, Mr. Watson works in matter which tests his powers
when free from a motive engrossingly literary, political, or religious; ..."
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