Other Word Forms
- obtrusionist noun
- preobtrusion noun
Etymology
Origin of obtrusion
1570–80; < Late Latin obtrūsiōn- (stem of obtrūsiō ), equivalent to Latin obtrūs ( us ) ( obtrūd ( ere ) to obtrude + tus past participle suffix, with dt > s ) + -iōn- -ion
Example Sentences
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This, however, was a different order of obtrusion.
From The Guardian • Apr. 2, 2011
The obtrusion of these two dead women upon Poe's subliminal nature is seen in the self-frustration of incipient amours before his marriage with a "consumptive angel" of 13, Virginia Clemm.
From Time Magazine Archive
Equally important is inappropriateness: "the linking of disparates, the collision of different mental spheres, the obtrusion into one context of what belongs in another."
From Time Magazine Archive
Annoyed at this obtrusion, I was about to send him away, but she restrained my interference with a slight movement of the hand.
From Withered Leaves. Vol. I. (of III) A Novel by Gottschall, Rudolf von
An intervention of “vitalistic” principles, directions and so forth, would, we are told, involve a sudden obtrusion and disappearance again of energy-effects which had no efficient cause in the previous phenomena.
From Naturalism And Religion by Otto, Rudolf
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