All 7 Uses of
intrusion
in
David Copperfield
- I will intrude no longer.'†
Chpt 10-12 *intrude = unwelcome involvement or interruption
- I ask your pardon, sir, if I intrude.†
Chpt 25-27
- I should never wish to intrude where I were not welcome.†
Chpt 25-27
- We can't be happy together for five minutes in the evening, but some intrusive female knocks at the door, and says, 'Oh, if you please, Miss Dora, would you step upstairs!'†
Chpt 43-45intrusive = unwelcome involvement
- I assure Mr. T. T. that I would not intrude upon his kindness, were I in any other position than on the confines of distraction.†
Chpt 49-51intrude = unwelcome involvement or interruption
- It's only to say, on reflection,' observed a voice behind Uriah, as Uriah's head was pushed away, and the speaker's substituted — 'pray excuse me for this intrusion — that as it seems I have no choice in the matter, the sooner I go abroad the better.†
Chpt 16-18
- But appearing to remark that Mr. Wickfield went on with his dinner in the same sedate, immovable manner, and that there was no hope of making him relax a muscle of his face, he added: 'However, I have said what I came to say, and, with another apology for this intrusion, I may take myself off.†
Chpt 16-18
Definitions:
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(1)
(intrusion) an involvement or interruption that is unwelcome
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
In geology, intrusion can reference the forcing of molten rock into fissures or between strata of an earlier rock formation.