All 8 Uses of
intrusion
in
Gone with the Wind
- Why must this calf-like fool intrude his feelings on this particular day when she was so worried she was about to lose her mind?†
Chpt 1.6 *intrude = unwelcome involvement or interruption
- It was bad enough that she had intruded herself among strange rough workmen, but it was still worse for a woman to show publicly that she could do mathematics like that.†
Chpt 4.36intruded = interrupted or involved oneself without welcome
- No one intruded upon her, believing that she wished to be left alone with her grief, but to be left alone was the last thing Scarlett desired.†
Chpt 4.47
- I hate to intrude on you at this time but I have a matter of business to discuss that will not wait.†
Chpt 4.47intrude = unwelcome involvement or interruption
- Oh, Mammy, I couldn't intrude!†
Chpt 5.59
- Madam, forgive my intrusion but—could I spend the night on your porch?†
Chpt 3.19
- I resented their intrusion.†
Chpt 4.31
- And to what do I owe this intrusion?†
Chpt 4.45
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.