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s | obsessed |

As a letter s

is the letter s with a.

As a verb obsessed is

(obsess).

As an adjective obsessed is

intensely preoccupied (with) or (by) a given topic or emotion; driven by a specified obsession.

s

Translingual

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Letter

  • The nineteenth letter of the .

    • Symbol

    (wikipedia) (mul-symbol)
  • voiceless alveolar fricative
  • Symbol for second , an SI unit of measurement of time.

    • See also

    (Latn-script) * * (esh) * (dze) * {{Letter , page=S , NATO=Sierra , Morse=··· , Character=S , Braille=? }} Image:Latin S.png, Capital and lowercase versions of S , in normal and italic type Image:Fraktur letter S.png, Uppercase and lowercase S in Fraktur Symbols for SI units ----

    obsessed

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (obsess)
  • Influenced or controlled by evil spirits, but less than possessed in that the spirits do not actually reside in the victim.
  • *E. W. Sprague, 1915 , Spirit Obsession Or a False Doctrine & A Menace to Modern Spiritualism , page 86, ISBN 0766140725.
  • *:Believing that an evil spirit is trying to obsess' one is a dangerous belief, and when one comes to believe he is ' obsessed by an evil spirit, though there is not an evil spirit within a thousand miles of him, he will have all the symptoms.
  • *2007 , James E. Padgett, The Teachings of Jesus , page 100, ISBN 1430303913.
  • *:It is true, that by the workings of the law of attraction, and the susceptibility of mortals to the influence of spirit powers, mortals may become obsessed by the spirits of evil...
  • *2010 , Joseph Agbi, Living in God's Kingdom , page 71, ISBN 1612154107.
  • *:What of demon possession, whereby a person is not only obsessed or oppressed by evil spirits, but these spirits actually reside in such a person?

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Intensely preoccupied (with) or (by) a given topic or emotion; driven by a specified obsession.
  • * 1997 , Philip Roth, American Pastoral :
    • What was starting to unsettle him, to frighten him, was the idea that Merry was less horrified now than curious, and soon he himself became obsessed , though not, like her, by the self-immolators in Vietnam but by the change of demeanor of his eleven-year-old.
  • * 1999 , Mark Lawson, The Guardian , 28 Jun 1999:
    • Strangely, although it is an international cliché that the British are obsessed with the weather, it is a fixation with minor irritations: will rain spoil the wedding, the Test Match, the bank holiday?
  • * 2007 , Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day :
    • Everyone lay around in a sort of focused inertia, drinking, handing cigarettes back and forth, forgetting with whom, or whether, they were supposed to be romantically obsessed .