enamor

• enamour (British spelling)
• inamor (archaic)
• inamour (archaic)

Old French enamourer, enamorer; prefix en- (Latin in) + Old French & French amour (“love”), Latin amor. See amour, and confer inamorato.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɪˈnæmə(ɹ)/

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• Rhymes: -æmə(r)

enamor (third-person singular simple present enamors, present participle enamoring, simple past and past participle enamored)

1. (mostly in the passive, followed by "of" or "with") To cause to be in love.
   • 1596, William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act IV, Scene I:

     Me-thought I was enamoured of an Asse.

   • 1900, Leo Tolstoy, translated by William E. Smith, The Awakening: The Resurrection Chapter 86

     He was offered a chair in the university and a course abroad. But he hesitated. There was a girl of whom he became enamored, so he contemplated marriage and political activity.

2. (mostly in the passive) To captivate.
   • Washington Irving:

     Passionately enamored of this shadow of a dream.

• disenamour, disenamor

• fall in love, fall out of love
• love, unlove

• enamor in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

• Anmore, Armeno-, Mareno, Morane, Morena, Ramone, anomer, maenor, marone, menora, moaner, monera, morena