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noun

Enchantment n.

The act of enchanting; the production of certain wonderful effects by the aid of demons, or the agency of supposed spirits; the use of magic arts, spells, or charms; incantation. "After the last enchantment you did here."

The effect produced by the act; the state of being enchanted; as, to break an enchantment.

That which captivates the heart and senses; an influence or power which fascinates or highly delights. "Such an enchantment as there is in words."

Synonyms: Incantation; necromancy; magic; sorcery; witchcraft; spell; charm; fascination; witchery.

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Etymology of 'Enchantment'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Enchantment" Quotes from Famous Books

... like this before you?" said Helen, with a sigh of pleasure, as she looked from the balcony which overhangs the Rhine at the hotel of the "Three Kings" at Coblentz. Ehrenbreitstein towered opposite, the broad river glittered below, and a midsummer moon lent its enchantment to the landscape. ...

— Kitty's Class Day And Other Stories • Louisa M. Alcott

... sacred lies, go on leading cowards by the nose, in the dark windings of your labyrinth:—to me the enchantment is ended, the charm disappears. I see that all men are but the sport of Destiny. And that, if there do exist some Gloomy and Inexorable Being, who allows a despised herd of creatures to go on multiplying here, he values them as nothing; looks down ...

— History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Vol. XVIII. (of XXI.) - Frederick The Great--Seven-Years War Rises to a Height.--1757-1759. • Thomas Carlyle

... for a King's recovery, rang also for the public announcement of a royal betrothal. Prince Fritz had returned to the enchantment of his Charlotte's society at the earliest possible moment, and was in consequence one of the royal family group which went in state to the Cathedral to return thanks for the sovereign's ...

— King John of Jingalo - The Story of a Monarch in Difficulties • Laurence Housman

... windows casts a splendour as of precious stones; the same extreme distance between the enormous pillars, leaving more clear space than in our churches, and giving to the domes the appearance of being held up by enchantment. ...

— Egypt (La Mort De Philae) • Pierre Loti

... the Piazza of Michelangelo and saw Florence, like a city of dim, red gold extended beneath them. The setting sunlight wove an enchantment over towers and roofs. It spread a veil of ineffable brightness upon the city and tinged green Arno also, where the river ...

— The Grey Room • Eden Phillpotts

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