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Intrusion   /ɪntrˈuʒən/   Listen
noun
Intrusion  n.  
1.
The act of intruding, or of forcing in; especially, the forcing (one's self) into a place without right or welcome; encroachment. "Why this intrusion? Were not my orders that I should be private?"
2.
(Geol.) The penetrating of one rock, while in a plastic or metal state, into the cavities of another.
3.
(Law) The entry of a stranger, after a particular estate or freehold is determined, before the person who holds in remainder or reversion has taken possession.
4.
(Scotch Ch.) The settlement of a minister over a congregation without their consent.






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"Intrusion" Quotes from Famous Books



... a lodger, with or without board, &c.; and by resolutely submitting, for a single year, to the economy we had prescribed for ourselves, as well as to the annoyance of a stranger's intrusion, we calculated that at the end of that term we should ...
— J. S. Le Fanu's Ghostly Tales, Volume 4 • Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

... establish eight missions among them. He adds that he has appointed as governor, or commander, in that province, Don Domingo Teran de los Rios, who will make a thorough exploration of it, carry out what De Leon has begun, prevent the farther intrusion of foreigners like La Salle, and go in pursuit of the remnant of the French, who are said still to remain among the tribes of Red River. I owe this document to the ...
— France and England in North America, a Series of Historical Narratives, Part Third • Francis Parkman

... failed to gain her end with him—and there was a peculiar irony in the fact that Moffatt's intrusion should have brought before her the providential result of her previous failure. Not that she confessed to any real resemblance between the two situations. In the present case she knew well enough what she wanted, and how to get it. But the ...
— The Custom of the Country • Edith Wharton

... experience his peculiar savour, must bear with patience the presence of an alien element in Wordsworth's work, which never coalesced with what is really delightful in it, nor underwent his special power. Who that values his writings most has not felt the intrusion there, from time to time, of something tedious and prosaic? Of all poets equally great, he would gain most by a skilfully made anthology. Such a selection would show, in truth, not so much what he was, or to himself or others [41] seemed to be, as what, by the more energetic ...
— Appreciations, with an Essay on Style • Walter Horatio Pater

... "Pardon this seeming intrusion, Mrs. De Peyster," the foremost young man said rapidly, smoothly, appeasingly. "But we could not go, as you requested. The sailing of Mrs. De Peyster, under the attendant circumstances, is a piece of news of first importance; in fact, almost ...
— No. 13 Washington Square • Leroy Scott


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