enamouredadj.
/ɛˈnaməd/ Full of the passion of love; in love. Also, in weaker sense, charmed, fascinated.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > love > amorous love > [adjective]
amorousc1330
in love (with)a1398
in amours1523
passionate1534
browden1597
inamorate1606
enamoureda1631
épris1793
that way1865
kissy1873
pash1920
potty1923
keen1936
a1631 J. Donne Poems (1650) 38 Th' inamour'd fish will stay.
1661 J. Glanvill Vanity of Dogmatizing xii. 113 The enamour'd Intellect.
1671 A. Woodhead tr. Life St. Teresa i. xxxvi. 268 This Glass was..set in our Lord himself, with such an enamoured communication of himself.
1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 27. ⁋6 Love..had that Effect on this enamour'd Man.
1815 W. Wordsworth White Doe of Rylstone i. 8 Where the enamoured sunny light Brightens her that was so bright.
1854 H. H. Milman Hist. Lat. Christianity III. viii. viii. 443 The enamoured princess could not endure life without him.
1877 E. Dowden Shakspere (Macmillan Lit. Primers) vi. 82 The enamoured Venus.
Derivatives
eˈnamouredness n. rare.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > love > amorous love > [noun] > state of being in love
inamoration1652
enamourednessa1678
enamourmenta1711
a1678 A. Woodhead Motives Holy Living (1688) 56 Sensual loves, or enamour'dness of any earthly person or thing.
18.. M. Cowden Clarke On Coriolanus ii. i. 164 Among the most intense utterances of spousal enamouredness.
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