engrossment
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- ingrossment (historical or archaic)
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Noun[edit]
engrossment (countable and uncountable, plural engrossments)
- (uncountable) The state of being engrossed; concentration or preoccupation.
- 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XVII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 201:
- I had been too profoundly disabused of life's dearest illusions ever again to allow of their sweet engrossment.
- (countable, law) The fact or instance of preparing the final draft legal document for execution or completion.
- (countable, law, informal) Such document that has not yet been executed or completed.