Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To inflame with love; charm; captivate: used chiefly in the past participle, with of or with before the person or thing: as, to be enamoured of a lady; to be enamoured of or with books or science.
- Synonyms To fascinate, bewitch.
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- verb UK Alternative spelling of
enamor .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb attract; cause to be enamored
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Examples
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His arms with soft emotion th 'enamour'd warrior threw,
National Epics Kate Milner Rabb 1901
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But with the fliarp ttansfix'd Apollo's breaft. ji Th 'enamour'd Deity purfues the chace; I The fcornful damfel ftiuns his Ibath'd embrace, 1'
The works of the British poets : with prefaces, biographical and critical 1795
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To challenge — nay — fometimes — to fight Provok'd th 'enamour'd beau.
The works of the English poets; with prefaces, biographical and critical 1790
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No doubt for the few that stayed awake the ensuing chaos would further enamour them of our political system.
John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting... 2009
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Some of you might want to get lucky some time soon and bullion will not enamour your wife as much as a tennis bracelet would.
Silver Bells, Silver Bells,... mmmm silver Canadian silver bug/Green Assassin Brigade 2006
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Some of you might want to get lucky some time soon and bullion will not enamour your wife as much as a tennis bracelet would.
Archive 2006-11-19 Canadian silver bug/Green Assassin Brigade 2006
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And as he looked at her and considered her curiously, an object to enamour an ascetic and make a devotee lovesick, fire was lighted in his vitals and he cried, Folk say that whoso taketh up his abode in this house dieth or sickeneth.
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The happy clapping and blind faith in a choreographed, televised service is also hardly likely to enamour the Christian to the wider populace.
Archive 2008-04-01 2008
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Your enamour carries thru out this life as few others have.
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Talem pulchritudinem qualem virtus habet; no painter, no graver, no carver can express virtue's lustre, or those admirable rays that come from it, those enchanting rays that enamour posterity, those everlasting rays that continue to the world's end.
Prolagus commented on the word enamour
I love my car
I'll admit today I've gone too far
To enamour myself of my little motor car
I love my dog
I love my pussy cat, I love the rat
That lives under the floor and makes his bed from novelettes.
(I love my car, by Belle and Sebastian)
November 12, 2008