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- noun Plural form of
preoccupancy .
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Examples
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But the preoccupancies by other Institutions, and the inferiority of qualifications her for some departments of science to those which may be found abroad, have induced us, in our anxiety to make the University as attractive and useful as possible, to seek there also for the means of filling particular chairs.
Letters to and from Jefferson, 1824 [a machine-readable transcription] 1824
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She would be a person who is witty and also shares his intellectual preoccupancies.
unknown title 2009
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She would be a person who is witty and also shares his intellectual preoccupancies.
unknown title 2009
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She would be a person who is witty and also shares his intellectual preoccupancies.
unknown title 2009
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She would be a person who is witty and also shares his intellectual preoccupancies.
unknown title 2009
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She would be a person who is witty and also shares his intellectual preoccupancies.
unknown title 2009
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