Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Involution in one's self; hence, mental abstraction; reverie.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Involution in one's self; hence, abstraction of thought; reverie.
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It will be seen that at least opium did not move me to seek solitude, and much less to seek inactivity, or the torpid state of self-involution ascribed to the Turks.
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English all over and all through; hypochondriacal, with a strong tendency to self-involution and self-absorption.
The Revolution in Tanner's Lane Mark Rutherford 1872
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