All 3 Uses of
intrusion
in
A Passage to India
- When the animal runs into us the Nawab loses his head, deserts his unfortunate chauffeur, intrudes upon Miss Derek ....no great crimes, no great crimes, but no white man would have done it.†
Chpt 8 *intrudes = interrupts or involves oneself without welcome
- Much upset, he sat silent for a moment, thinking over his mother and her senile intrusions.†
Chpt 22intrusions = interruptions or instances of unwelcome involvement
- When they argued about it something racial intruded—not bitterly, but inevitably, like the colour of their skins: coffee-colour versus pinko-grey.†
Chpt 29intruded = interrupted or involved oneself without welcome
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.