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
Example Sentences
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Mr. Judd was a good scholar, and the word is legitimately compounded, like ensphere and imparadise; but he did not invent it.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 25, November, 1859 by Various
For she, that can my heart imparadise, Holds in her fairest hand what dearest is.
From The Home Book of Verse — Volume 2 by Stevenson, Burton Egbert
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 Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir
God’s very grace Is perfect in thy face, Mirrored such wise That I mine own soul there imparadise.
From Eidola by Manning, Frederic
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 Hartwell, E. C. (Ernest Clark)
For even as Beatrix Dante's wreath did bind, So, Hymnia, hast thou imparadised my mind.
From Helen Redeemed and Other Poems by Hewlett, Maurice Henry
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 MacKenzie, Compton
The sentence was out before she had time to realize that the general untidiness included a searing vision of Lily in an arm-chair, imparadised upon the lap of the impossible Tom Hewitt.
From The Vanity Girl by MacKenzie, Compton
The whole of its supernaturalism is borrowed bodily from Persia, which had "imparadised Earth by making it the abode of angels."
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 10 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
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 MacKenzie, Compton
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