enchantment

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• inchantment

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Noun

enchantment (countable and uncountable; plural enchantments)

1. The act of enchanting or the feeling of being enchanted.
2. Something that enchants; a magical spell.
3. Something that is enchanted.
   • 1885, John Ormsby, Don Quixote, volume 1, translation of El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes, chapter XXXV:

     "I see now that it's all enchantment in this house; for the last time, on this very spot where I am now, I got ever so many thumps without knowing who gave them to me, or being able to see anybody; and now this head is not to be seen anywhere about, though I saw it cut off with my own eyes and the blood running from the body as if from a fountain."

Translations

act, feeling of enchanting

Bulgarian: очарование (bg) n., омагьосване (bg) n. French: enchantement (fr) m., ensorcellement (fr) m.

something that enchants

Bulgarian: магия (bg) f.

something enchanted

French: enchantement (fr) m.