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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. quotations examples
Me-thought I was enamoured of an Asse.
1596, William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act IV, Scene I
By Phœbus, here's a moſt neate fine ſtreete; is't not? I proteſt to thee, I am enamord of this ſtreete now, more then of halfe the ſtreetes of Rome, againe; tis ſo polite, and terſe; [...]
1601, Ben Jonson, Poetaster or The Arraignment: […], London: […] [R. Bradock] for M[atthew] L[ownes] […], published 1602, Act III
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, chapter 86, in William E. Smith, transl., The Awakening: The Resurrection
(mostly in the passive) To captivate. quotations examples
Passionately enamoured of this shadow of a dream.
1824, Geoffrey Crayon [pseudonym; Washington Irving], Tales of a Traveller, (please specify |part=1 to 4), Philadelphia, Pa.: H[enry] C[harles] Carey & I[saac] Lea, […]