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Type Words
Synonyms intentness
Type of concentration, assiduousness, assiduity
Derivation engross
Type Words
Synonyms absorption, preoccupancy, preoccupation
Type of state of mind, cognitive state
Has types absentmindedness, abstractedness, abstraction
Derivation engross
Type Words
Synonyms absorption, concentration, immersion
Type of attention
Has types focusing, focussing, study, focal point, direction, focus, centering, specialism
Derivation engross

Examples of engrossment

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Clerk of the House Thomas H. Murry's signature also attests to the document's engrossment.
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The bill must then pass through three readings and engrossment in the second legislative branch.
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If amendments are adopted, the bill is sent to the Enrolling and Engrossing Department of that house for engrossment.
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Engrossment is the process of incorporating amendments into the bill before transmittal to the second house.
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This engrossment resulted in Gregorio adopting some of the techniques of these composers, and he also began writing articles about them in Argentina.
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He developed both verbal and non-verbal techniques, and pioneered the idea that the common experiences of wonderment, engrossment and confusion are, in reality, just kinds of trance.
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Minutes, which are in many cases illegible and incomplete, are deemed firsthand proof of an act and are considered to be originals, whereas the engrossment is not.
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Like Scott Pilgrim, it was a visual feast, and featured characters who possessed such levels of self-engrossment that by the end, it's hard to care at all whether either of them ends up happy.
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  • Concentration: complete attention; intense mental effort
  • Preoccupation: the mental state of being preoccupied by something
  • Intentness: the quality of being intent and concentrated; "the intentness of his gaze"
  • The preparation of an exact, accurate and official copy of a measure passed by the house of origin containing the proper endorsement of that house and including all adopted committee and floor amendments; the measure is then forwarded to the opposite house for its consideration. ...
  • The formal and final version of a document prepared by a solicitor in readiness for signing and sealing following agreement of the final draft between the parties.
  • When the draft deeds to a property are approved they are engrossed for the vendor and purchaser to sign.
  • The incorporation of amendments into a bill (or joint resolution) when a bill passes the house of origin and is sent to the second house. If not amended, the introduced version of the bill becomes the engrossed bill.
  • The process of preparing a bill for Final Reading by incorporating all adopted amendments.
  • The process of comparing the printed bill to ensure it looks like the original and to verify that amendments have been correctly inserted.