enamor

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   To cause to be in love.

   Me-thought I was enamoured of an Asse.

2. 2
   verb

   To captivate.

   Passionately enamoured of this shadow of a dream.

From Middle English enamouren, a late back-formation from enamoured, itself a partial calque of Old French enamore, past participle of enamorer, enamourer, equivalent to prefix en- + amor + -er. See amour, and compare inamorato.

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