occupied
adjective
lived in.
self-occupied
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a word derived from
occupied.
Example Sentences
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Little by little, his self-occupied personality yields, and at last he writes to her, "You have transformed my nature."
From The Friendships of Women by William Rounseville Alger
She seems to have been largely unconscious of her declension; self-occupied and self-contented, she scarcely noticed His absence; she was resting, resting alone,—never asking where He had gone, or how He was employed.
From Union And Communion or Thoughts on the Song of Solomon by James Hudson Taylor
Close under the mirror stood the Shadow which attended her walks, but, self-occupied, him she did not see.
From Lilith, a romance by George MacDonald
Heavier grief—grief more self-occupied and deaf to all voice of sympathy—I have not happened to witness.
From Autobiographical Sketches by Thomas De Quincey
Neither do we believe that Lydia was one of those self-occupied folk whom a shower of rain is sufficient to keep away from a meeting.
From The Assembly of God Miscellaneous Writings of C. H. Mackintosh, volume III by C. (Charles) H. (Henry) Mackintosh
