engagedness

Such an apt portrayal of the engagedness of our "intelligensia" with the real world they have escaped but at the same time destroy.

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But they somehow managed to look separate from the scene, as though the worry and weariness and day-to-day engagedness of the subway ride touched upon them not at all; and yet the way they were openly looking at the rest of us was avid, proprietary, amused, almost too knowing ...

Boing Boing: August 18, 2002 - August 24, 2002 Archives 2002

As my bodily strength returned, my engagedness of soul returned; also, my impressions to call upon my fellow-creatures to turn to God.

Beams of Light on Early Methodism in America. Chiefly Drawn from the Diary, Letters, Manuscripts, Documents, and Original Tracts of the Rev. Ezekiel Cooper. 1887

But again I was bro't to mourn for my sins and backslidings and renew my engagedness: and finally applied to our preacher, old Dr. Hall; was examined as to my exercise and experience, and admitted to the communion-table.

The Biography of Elder David Purviance, with His Memoirs: Containing His Views on Baptism, the Divinity of Christ, and the Atonement. Written by Himself: with an Appendix; Giving Biographical Sketches of Elders John Hardy, Reuben Dooly, William Dye, Thos. Kyle, George Shidler, William Kinkade, Thomas Adams, Samuel Kyle, and Nathan Worley. Together with a Historical Sketch of the Great Kentucky Revival Levi Purviance 1848

After visiting and praying with a man, who had been dangerously injured by a fall from his horse, he went home with a Mr. John Andrew, of whose engagedness in religion he speaks warmly.

Sketches of North Carolina, Historical and Biographical, Illustrative of the Principles of a Portion of Her Early Settlers 1846

Page 191 her air of devotion in prayer, showed an engagedness that comported not with vanity.

Recollections of a Southern matron, 1838

The publisher of “An account of the first planting of the colony of Georgia,” [1] speaking of his engagedness in this noble cause, says, “This was an instance of generosity and public spirit, and an enterprise of fatigue as Well as of danger, which few ages or nations can boast.”

Biographical Memorials of James Oglethorpe Harris, Thaddeus M 1838

For a woman professing godliness, to attempt, frequently, to have religious meetings conducted at her house, while her husband is pursuing a course that must interrupt their solemnity and order, would be no proof of sincere and humble engagedness in the cause.

Memoir of Mrs. Chloe Spear : a native of Africa, who was enslaved in childhood, and died in Boston, January 3, 1815, aged 65 years : by a Lady of Boston, Rebecca Warren Brown 1832

On Tuesday night, especially the latter part of it, I felt a great earnestness of soul and engagedness in seeking God for the town, that religion might now revive, and that God would bless Mr. Buell to that end.

Her Uncommon Discoveries of the Divine Perfections and Glory; and of the Excellency of Christ 1830

They were accompanied with a lively sense of the greatness of God, and her own littleness and vileness; and had abiding effects, in the increase of the sweetness, rest and humility, which they left upon the soul, and in a new engagedness of heart to live to the honour of God, and to watch and fight against sin.

Her Uncommon Discoveries of the Divine Perfections and Glory; and of the Excellency of Christ 1830