Also 9 engoument. [Fr.: lit. obstruction in the throat.] Unreasoning fondness.
1848. Thackeray, Van. Fair, xxxiv. (1866), 280. She repaid Miss Crawley’s engoument by artless sweetness and friendship.
1851. Sir F. Palgrave, Norm. & Eng., I. Introd. p. xliv. Swayed by that engouement for classical literature.
