Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The act of entrancing, or the state of being entranced; trance; ecstasy.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The act of entrancing, or the state of trance or ecstasy.

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  • noun The act of entrancing or the state of being entranced

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a feeling of delight at being filled with wonder and enchantment

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Examples

  • Sapphire sat entranced through all of it, though Rune suspected that half of her "entrancement" was another skill she had acquired; the ability to listen and appear fascinated by practically anything.

    The Lark And The Wren Lackey, Mercedes 1992

  • After his hellish entrancement, Declan held a singular hatred for witches.

    Dreams of a Dark Warrior Kresley Cole 2011

  • There is more emotion, compelling storytelling and entrancement in a single flutter of foliage or the touch of a hand to a cheek in Reiniger's film than in the entirety of one of Ms. Walker's convoluted rape scenes.

    The Usual Suspects Lance Esplund 2010

  • Kabir is that rare thing: a skeptical, disillusioned poet who nevertheless speaks in a voice of rapture and entrancement.

    When Mysticism Came Down to Earth Chandrahas Choudhury 2011

  • For whatever reason, be it entrancement or not, the strain had all but disappeared.

    Dreams of a Dark Warrior Kresley Cole 2011

  • For whatever reason, be it entrancement or not, the strain had all but disappeared.

    Dreams of a Dark Warrior Kresley Cole 2011

  • After his hellish entrancement, Declan held a singular hatred for witches.

    Dreams of a Dark Warrior Kresley Cole 2011

  • Had the dream been an entrancement, or something new?

    Dreams of a Dark Warrior Kresley Cole 2011

  • Had the dream been an entrancement, or something new?

    Dreams of a Dark Warrior Kresley Cole 2011

  • Already, the field had turned away from its fiery adolescence, its entrancement with universal solutions and radical cures, and was grappling with fundamental questions about cancer.

    The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010

  • But there’s a bit of magic involved, too: what Fernández-Vara calls “entrancement”.

    I was asked to invent the next Wordle. How hard could it be? David Shariatmadari 2023

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