imparadise
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
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to make blissfully happy; enrapture
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to make into or like paradise
Etymology
Origin of imparadise
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For she, that can my heart imparadise, Holds in her fairest hand what dearest is.
From The Home Book of Verse — Volume 2 by Burton Egbert Stevenson
There is a land, || of every land the pride, Beloved of heaven || o'er all the world beside; Where brighter suns || dispense serener light, And milder moons || imparadise the night.
From Sanders' Union Fourth Reader by Charles W. Sanders
For she, that can my heart imparadise, Holds in her fairest hand what dearest is; My Fortune's wheel 's the circle of her eyes, Whose rolling grace deign once a turn of bliss.
From Bulchevy's Book of English Verse by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
There is a land of every land the pride, Beloved of Heaven o'er all the world beside, There brighter suns dispense serener light And milder moons imparadise the night.
From Story Hour Readings: Seventh Year by E. C. (Ernest Clark) Hartwell
He saw, I suppose, for he added at once,— "Or what was the name of the Witch of Atlas, 'The magic circle of whose voice and eyes All savage natures did imparadise?'"
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 27, January, 1860 by Various
For even as Beatrix Dante's wreath did bind, So, Hymnia, hast thou imparadised my mind.
From Helen Redeemed and Other Poems by Maurice Henry Hewlett
Always in their youth, when they had sat imparadised, Michael had been aware of the vulgar Haden household in the background.
From Sinister Street, vol. 2 by Compton MacKenzie
Near him were lovers who in this symphony were fast imparadised; their hands were interlaced; visibly they swayed nearer to each other on the waves of melody.
From Sinister Street, vol. 1 by Compton MacKenzie
I knew that I should be a child at her knees the moment I set eyes upon her again; I knew that I should be imparadised, longing after impossible goodness, filled with impossible joys.
From The Fool Errant Being the Memoirs of Francis-Anthony Strelley, Esq., Citizen of Lucca by Maurice Henry Hewlett
With never so holy a calm had she knelt in the jeweled shadows of that chancel or retired from the altar to find her pew imparadised.
From Plashers Mead A Novel by Compton MacKenzie
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