All 6 Uses of
engrossed
in
Mansfield Park
- How abominable in you, then, to let me engross her horse as I did all last week!†
Chpt 9
- Fanny's thoughts were now all engrossed by the two who had left her so long ago, and getting quite impatient, she resolved to go in search of them.†
Chpt 10 *
- Tom was engrossed by the concerns of his theatre, and saw nothing that did not immediately relate to it.†
Chpt 17
- She heard them spoken of by him only in a general way, till they were all re-assembled in the drawing-room, when Edmund, being engaged apart in some matter of business with Dr. Grant, which seemed entirely to engross them, and Mrs. Grant occupied at the tea-table, he began talking of them with more particularity to his other sister.†
Chpt 23
- Her mind was entirely self-engrossed.†
Chpt 36
- —soon led her mind away from Northamptonshire, and fixed it on her own domestic grievances, and the shocking character of all the Portsmouth servants, of whom she believed her own two were the very worst, engrossed her completely.†
Chpt 38
Definition:
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(engrossed as in: engrossed in the book) with all attention focused