intromission

British  

/ ˌɪntrəˈmɪʃən /

noun

1. a less common word for insertion introduction

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Other Word Forms

• intromissive
  adjective

Example Sentences

Among the tuatara’s unusual reptilian traits are the relatively simple structure of its heart and lungs, the somewhat froggy style of its gait and the absence of any sort of male intromission organ, or penis.

From New York Times • Nov. 22, 2010

"All about what?—all about what?" said Delia, whose attempt to represent happy ignorance was menaced by an intromission of ferocity.

From The Reverberator by James, Henry

Her first intromission in politics--but I must not tell you that story, the authorities have decided you are to hear it otherwise and from a livelier narrator.

From David Balfour, Second Part Being Memoirs Of His Adventures At Home And Abroad, The Second Part: In Which Are Set Forth His Misfortunes Anent The Appin Murder; His Troubles With Lord Advocate Grant; Captivity On The Bass Rock; Journey Into Holland And France; And Singular Relations With James More Drummond Or Macgregor, A Son Of The Notorious Rob Roy, And His Daughter Catriona by Stevenson, Robert Louis

The clumsy, well meant intromission of third parties had only the effect of substituting Lockhart’s friend Christie in the broil for Lockhart himself.

From Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame by Colvin, Sidney

Deus nobis haec otia fecit!—Deus, by the intromission of one rarely good mother, and two rarely good, and I may add rarely gifted, wives!

From What I Remember, Volume 2 by Trollope, Thomas Adolphus