enamor
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EnglishEdit
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EtymologyEdit
Old French enamourer, enamorer; prefix en- (Latin in) + Old French & French amour (“love”), Latin amor. See amour, and confer inamorato.
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VerbEdit
enamor (third-person singular simple present enamors, present participle enamoring, simple past and past participle enamored)
- (mostly in the passive, followed by "of" or "with") To cause to be in love.
- 1900, Leo Tolstoy, translated by William E. Smith, The Awakening: The Resurrection Chapter 86
- He was offered a chair in the university and a course abroad. But he hesitated. There was a girl of whom he became enamored, so he contemplated marriage and political activity.
- 1900, Leo Tolstoy, translated by William E. Smith, The Awakening: The Resurrection Chapter 86
- (mostly in the passive) To captivate.
- Washington Irving:
- Passionately enamored of this shadow of a dream.
- Washington Irving:
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TranslationsEdit
to inflame with love
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ReferencesEdit
- enamor in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.