enamor
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[edit] Etymology
Old French enamourer, enamorer; prefix en- (Latin in) + Old French & French amour (“‘love’”), Latin amor. See amour, and confer inamorato.
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- Rhymes: -æmə(r)
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to enamor (third-person singular simple present enamors, present participle enamoring, simple past and past participle enamored)
- To inflame with love; to charm; to captivate; — with of, or with, before the person or thing; as, to be enamored with a lady; to be enamored of books or science.
- Passionately enamored of this shadow of a dream. — Washington Irving.
[edit] References
- enamor in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913