enchanter
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Etymology
Origin of enchanter
1250–1300; enchant + -er 1; replacing Middle English enchantour < Anglo-French; Old French enchanteor < Late Latin incantātor, equivalent to Latin incantā ( re ) ( see incantation) + -tor -tor
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Time and again, Venice materializes as a dark enchanter that clouds mind and morals alike.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2025
The strongest impression I took from our Yonkers meeting was that Hammons thoroughly enjoys being an enchanter, and that he will continue to elude us all.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 2, 2019
"That entertainment enchanter J.K. Rowling has come storming back to the world of magic in a shower of supernatural sparks and created a glorious fantasy-romance adventure," wrote Peter Bradshaw in Britain's Guardian newspaper.
From Reuters ● Nov. 13, 2016
Lothar’s chief nemesis is an all-powerful enchanter known as the Guardian, whose own private dabblings with the Fel — basically the Dark Side of the Force, but with fewer syllables — do not bode well for humankind.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2016
Taran noticed the enchanter had even made some attempt at straightening up the disorder of ancient volumes crowding the room.
From "The Black Cauldron" by Lloyd Alexander
The phrase echoed his resolve to keep in memory his creative forebears: the illusionists and enchanters, the charlatans and cardsharps, the human cannonballs, armless artists, learned animals and practitioners of ancient acts that still amaze.
From New York Times ● Oct. 19, 2021
Now Julie Taymor, the magician who on Broadway turned The Lion King menagerie into masked enchanters on stilts, takes Shakespeare's goriest play, Titus Andronicus, and makes it vivid, relevant and of elevating scariness.
From Time Magazine Archive
Ama was half-soothed by Mrs. Coulter’s soft voice, and half-afraid still; and the talk of enchanters and spells added to the awe she felt.
From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman
And so the legend grew of a mysterious group of enchanters who spirited children away.
From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman
"As like as one egg is to another," replied he of the Mirrors, "though, as you say you are persecuted by enchanters, I dare not affirm that you are actually the same person."
From The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
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