1641 J. Colepeper Speech in Parl. 2 The obtruding and countenancing of many divers new Ceremonies in matters of Religion, as the placeing of the Communion Table otherwise, the bowing to it, or cringing at it,..these carry with them some scandall, and much offence.

1787 R. Price Rev. Principal Questions in Morals (ed. 3) i. 663 in D. D. Raphael Brit. Moralists: 1650–1800 (1991) 136 Sense consists in the obtruding of certain impressions upon us, independently of our wills.

1961 D. D. Wallace South Carolina 513 Even at home moderate men were offended..by the obtruding of the State convention of the South Carolina Southern Rights Association in May, 1851.

1754 S. Fielding & J. Collier Cry II. iii. xv. 211 All her imaginary joys vanished by the obtruding thought.

1798 T. Harding Rural Beauties Sanderstead 23 The wily Foxes, the fleet Hares and the burrowing rabbits..are seen gazing on the obtruding Traveller.

1853 W. M. Thackeray Let. 13 Feb. (1946) III. 199 These strange people with retreating foreheads, with great obtruding lips & jaws.

1879 F. W. Farrar Life & Work St. Paul I. iii. x. 182 He could crush by passion and energy such obtruding fancies.

1941 E. R. Eddison Fish Dinner xix. 324 An aristocratical plutocratical self-obtruding dilettante.

1982 Amer. Q. 34 28 Without the solicitous mediation of an understanding contemporary we are forced to suppress our own obtruding opinions if we are to understand what we are reading.