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enamour

British  
/ ɪnˈæmə /

verb

  1. to inspire with love; captivate; charm

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of enamour

C14: from Old French enamourer, from amour love, from Latin amor

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One reading of José Mourinho’s criticism of Manchester United supporters is that it is hardly going to enamour the manager to them.

From The Guardian Jan. 11, 2017

For him to fall in love was itself a violent peripety, bound to produce a violent upheaval; and such was his pride that for his love to be unrequited would naturally enamour him of death.

From Zuleika Dobson, or, an Oxford love story by Sir Max Beerbohm

Him whom thou dost once enamour,   Thou, beloved, never leavest; In life's discord, strife, and clamor, Still he feels thy spell of glamour;   Him of Hope thou ne'er bereavest.

From The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

And over your cliffs they clamber, And over your vast they gaze; For the tides of you can enamour Even them with their woodland ways.

From Sea Poems by Cale Young Rice

In world may come romance,         With all the lures of love and glamour; And woesome tragedy will chance         To him whom fairy forms enamour.

From AE in the Irish Theosophist by George William Russell

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