ppl. a. [f. prec. vb. + -ED1.] Full of the passion of love; in love. Also, in weaker sense, charmed, fascinated.
a. 1631. Donne, Poems (1650), 38. Th’inamour’d fish will stay.
1665. Glanvill, Sceps. Sci., xiv. 83. The enamour’d Intellect.
1669. Woodhead, St. Teresa, I. xxxvi. 268. This Glass was … set in our Lord himself, with such an enamoured communication of himself.
1709. Steele, Tatler, No. 27, ¶ 6. Love … had that Effect on this enamour’d Man.
1814. Wordsw., White Doe, I. 85. Where the enamoured sunny light Brightens her that was so bright.
1855. Milman, Lat. Chr. (1864), V. VIII. viii. 23. The enamoured princess could not endure life without him.
1877. Dowden, Shaks. Prim., vi. 82. The enamoured Venus.
Hence Enamouredness. rare.
a. 1678. Woodhead, Holy Living (1688), 56. Sensual loves, or enamour’dness of any earthly person or thing.
18[?]. Mrs. C. Clarke, On Coriolanus, II. i. 164. Among the most intense utterances of spousal enamouredness.
