1843. C. E. B. Tonna, Judah’s Lion, xx. 318–9. He knew enough to make it so absorbingly interesting, that self was wholly swallowed up in the sublime conceptions of what that royal city had been.
1868. Athenæum, 25 July, 105/1. The sole idea which absorbingly possessed him [Edward] was that of erecting a great Norman Abbey in Westminster.
1872. Liddon, Elem. of Relig., v. 173. Any common act of prayer keeps … the understanding occupied earnestly, absorbingly, under the guidance of faith.
