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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
enamour .
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Examples
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/ But this our life the Eternal Good inspires/ Immediate, and enamours of itself;/ So that our wishes rest forever here.
Archive 2009-04-01 2009
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That said, a libertarian approach also enamours the belief that an economic producer has the right to control himself and his property, so they resist measurer to actually prevent racism...
An Incredible Candidate For Labour Leader Praguetory 2007
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In heaven indeed more than upon earth she enamours the poet.
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From whence it follows, since glory so much enamours, and disgrace so much afflicts the soul of man, that it is no wonder, if the acquiring of one, and the avoiding of the other, so potently commands all our actions.
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. V. 1634-1716 1823
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Oberon instantly resolves to make this pair the instruments of his reunion with his queen, and for this purpose he brings up Huon and Sherasmin asleep before him, enamours the knight by showing him Reiza, daughter of the Caliph, in a vision, transports him at his waking to Bagdad, and having given him a magic horn, by the blasts of which he is always to summon the assistance of Oberon, and a cup that fills at pleasure, disappears.
The Standard Operas (12th edition) Their Plots, Their Music, and Their Composers 1876
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"'The spell of all spells that enamours the heart,
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 54, No. 338, December 1843 Various
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