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Intrusion   /ɪntrˈuʒən/   Listen
Intrusion

noun
1.
Any entry into an area not previously occupied.  Synonyms: encroachment, invasion.  "An invasion of locusts"
2.
Entrance by force or without permission or welcome.
3.
The forcing of molten rock into fissures or between strata of an earlier rock formation.
4.
Rock produced by an intrusive process.
5.
Entry to another's property without right or permission.  Synonyms: encroachment, trespass, usurpation, violation.



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"Intrusion" Quotes from Famous Books



... has long since ceased to be used for burials, beyond those occasionally permitted, for special reasons, by act of the Vestry of the parish. This disuse has secured to the churchyard the right to grow old gracefully, without the too frequent intrusion of recent death, and to acquire the picturesque charm of antiquity which in cemeteries seems to dispel all ...
— The Story of Cooperstown • Ralph Birdsall

... of igneous intrusion, through the agency of aqueous and gaseous solutions given off from ...
— The Economic Aspect of Geology • C. K. Leith

... have come to throw myself upon your generosity. Will you lend me a horse? I was riding in the forest when my horse fell over a root and lamed himself. I found I was only three miles from Osterno, so I came. My misfortune must be my excuse for this—intrusion." ...
— The Sowers • Henry Seton Merriman

... before had she 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 analogy had served her father's ...
— The Custom of the Country • Edith Wharton

... from the church and assisted into her saddle by Judge Provost, Colonel Thornton, or some other "potent, grave and reverend seignors," who "hedged her about with a divinity" that it was impossible, without rudeness and intrusion, to break through. The more he was baffled and perplexed, the more eager became his desire to cultivate her acquaintance. Had his course been clear to woo her for his wife, it would have been easy to ask permission ...
— The Missing Bride • Mrs. E. D. E. N. Southworth


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