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Johnyxxx

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Hello.

I would like to ask how the phrase "to consider something as possessed of interest" sounds to a native English speaker of the modern day. I know it is an outdated phrase, the text was published two hundred years ago but somehow I like it.


"If you consider the following pages as possesed of interest, I should be happy to see them inserted in your Miscellany."

A Night In The Catacombs by Daniel Keyte Sandford, 1818.


Thank you very much.

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It's archaic.
 
That is a roundabout way of saying something is interesting.
 
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