[f. ENTRANCE v. + -MENT.] The action of entrancing; the condition of being entranced.

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1652.  Cokaine, trans. Cassandra, 84. His spirits a little recovered from that entrancement.

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1680.  Otway, Poet’s Compl. Muse, v. As we did in our Entrancements lie.

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1772.  Mackenzie, Man World, I. xxii. (1823), 448. She received it with an intrancement of sorrow.

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1817.  Coleridge, Sibyl. Leaves, Keepsake, 147. Nor yet th’ entrancement of that maiden kiss With which she promis’d.

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1837.  Howitt, Rur. Life, VI. xviii. (1862), 610. The feelings of delicious entrancement with which I approached the outskirts of Dartmoor.

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