All 5 Uses of
intrusion
in
The Count of Monte Cristo
- Then you really consider we shall not be intruding if we pay our respects to him directly?†
Chpt 33-34 *intruding = interrupting or involving oneself without welcome
- M. Danglars, however, while possessing a great admiration for the antique, as it was understood during the time of the Directory, entertained the most sovereign contempt for the simple elegance of his wife's favorite sitting-room, where, by the way, he was never permitted to intrude, unless, indeed, he excused his own appearance by ushering in some more agreeable visitor than himself; and even then he had rather the air and manner of a person who was himself introduced, than that of being the presenter of another, his reception being cordial or frigid, in proportion as the person who accompanied him chanced to please or displease the baroness.†
Chpt 47-48intrude = unwelcome involvement or interruption
- You can understand, can you not, that to have acted as I have done, to have broken that glass, to have intruded on the solitude of a friend—you can understand that, to have done all this, I must have been actuated by real uneasiness, or rather by a terrible conviction.†
Chpt 105-106intruded = interrupted or involved oneself without welcome
- "My good friend," said Albert, "I beg pardon for my intrusion, but I was anxious to know from your own mouth if your master was really out or not."†
Chpt 77-78
- Valentine turned her eyes away, and, with an indignant expression of pride and modest fear, exclaimed: "Sir, I think you have been guilty of an unparalleled intrusion, and that what you call protection is more like an insult."†
Chpt 99-100
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.