enchantment
IPA: ɛntʃˈæntmʌnt
noun
- The act of enchanting or the feeling of being enchanted.
- Something that enchants; a magical spell.
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Examples of "enchantment" in Sentences
- Essentially, evocation and enchantment is it for wizards now.
- This is the opposite of addiction: one might call it enchantment.
- The danger of enchantment is that it can quickly cloy, but Herbert’s version of it never did.
- Nobody can understand our literature, our poetry if the power of enchantment is removed from the word.
- They had many glamorous nights on the roof, nights that recalled the enchantment of those hours under the Aurora, nights of severe mental reservation on Marcella's part, all unsuspected by Louis.
- Even at the filthy commercial end of the process, enchantment is possible; for every writer knows, there has to be the invisible snagging trick at the beginning, a kind of promise to their reader.
- F.T.B. 20, 81.) (b) Enchanted creatures: fish jumps back into the water after being cooked; pigeons fly away after being cooked; hero enchants animals in the wilds by music; hero by enchantment is made to forget and desert his wife and child; cow gives milk all day without bearing young, and her dung is golden.
- The instant wherein that supreme quality of beauty, the clear radiance of the esthetic image, is apprehended luminously by the mind which has been arrested by its wholeness and fascinated by its harmony is the luminous silent stasis of esthetic pleasure, a spiritual state very like to that cardiac condition which the Italian physiologist Luigi Galvani, using a phrase almost as beautiful as Shelley's, called the enchantment of the heart.
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