obtrusion

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This, however, was a different order of obtrusion.

From The Guardian • Apr. 2, 2011

The obtrusion of these two dead women upon Poe's subliminal nature is seen in the self-frustration of incipient amours before his marriage with a "consumptive angel" of 13, Virginia Clemm.

From Time Magazine Archive

Equally important is inappropriateness: "the linking of disparates, the collision of different mental spheres, the obtrusion into one context of what belongs in another."

From Time Magazine Archive

Such a very remarkable obtrusion enchained the attention of us all.

From Mrs. Fitz by Snaith, J. C.

Here, then, begin the obtrusion, and the alledged necessity of those boundary walls, against which I have been protesting.

From A Morning's Walk from London to Kew by Phillips, Richard