Crossword-Solution: PREOCCUPANCY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Preoccupancy | n. | The act or right of taking possession before another; as, the preoccupancy of wild land. |
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| an act or the right of taking possession before another | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
To boil with a continued bubbling or heaving and
rolling, with noise.
Hint 2 anagram
WLLOAP
Hint 3 another clue
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Sentences with PREOCCUPANCY (5)
Manning called, and assisted her into the carriage, he observed an unusual preoccupancy of mind; but after a few desultory remarks she rallied, gave him her undivided attention, and seemed engrossed by his conversation.
The preoccupancy of the country by such indigenous tribes may have checked the development of the placental Rodents and Cheiroptera, even were we to concede the possibility of such forms being convertible by variation and progressive development into higher grades of mammalia.
When I first wrote, thirty-five years ago, I attached great importance to preoccupancy, and fancied that a body of indigenous plants already fitted for every available station would prevent an invader, especially from, a quite foreign province, from having a chance of making good his settlement in a new country.
His youth was apparently much like mine, not a youth of athleticism so much as a preoccupancy with wonder and the imminence of beauty surrounding all things.
Preoccupancy during the ages past is considered by infidels themselves a sufficient ground for belief.