Definition of "engrossment"

engrossment

/ɛnˈɡɹəʊsmənt/

noun
countable and uncountable, plural engrossments
1. (uncountable) The state of being engrossed; concentration or preoccupation.
  Quotations
  I had been too profoundly disabused of life's dearest illusions ever again to allow of their sweet engrossment.
  1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XVII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), page 201
2. (countable, law) The fact or instance of preparing the final draft legal document for execution or completion.
3. (countable, law, informal) Such document that has not yet been executed or completed.