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noun

Intrusion n.

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?"

(Geol.) The penetrating of one rock, while in a plastic or metal state, into the cavities of another.

(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.

(Scotch Ch.) The settlement of a minister over a congregation without their consent.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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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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