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Definition of Preoccupies
1. preoccupy [v] - See also: preoccupy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Preoccupies
Literary usage of Preoccupies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Sessional Papers by Ontario Legislative Assembly (1917)
"... camp in England or for immediate service in the trenches and with the artillery.
The war preoccupies every one, mind and body, and preoccupies even our ..."
2. Institutes of the Christian Religion by Jean Calvin (1921)
"Nor is it to be doubted, that indolence preoccupies them, and prevents them from
properly examining their hearts as they ought to do. ..."
3. The Cambridge History of English Literature by Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller (1910)
"Middleton, though the spider preoccupies him, and lends him a web for spinning,
puts the fly, too, into the pattern. If we seek a reason for the almost ..."
4. The Contemporary Review (1878)
"At the present time there is only one of our questions which directly preoccupies
foreign Governments,—that is the relations which the new national State ..."
5. The American Journal of International Law by American Society of International Law (1918)
"The prospect of a possible attack against Serbia by the combined Austro-German
forces preoccupies intensely the Royal Government and this on account of the ..."
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