enthrallment
noun
the act of enslaving or the state of being enslaved; bondage or slavery.
enthrallments
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pluralof enthrallment.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Spielberg has created, with skill equal to Dickens’s, the strangeness felt by an innocent—the bewildering oddity, the physical enthrallments and terror of something entirely unprecedented.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 8, 2017
Andrew Stanton, director of the animated enthrallments Finding Nemo and WALL·E, has finally brought the grandfather of all time- and space-traveling American supermen to pure movie form in John Carter.
From Time ● Mar. 8, 2012
The 63rd edition of Cannes unearthed no masterpieces, few enthrallments and a lot of dead wood from the not-quite-masters of world cinema.
From Time ● May 22, 2010
"A glittering shambles/ of enthrallments and futilities," goes one complaint; "a warren of untruth, a propped/ vacuity."
From Time Magazine Archive
