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enhoney

enhoney verb: to sweeten (figuratively); to entice, allure.

Verb

enhoney (third-person singular simple present enhoneys, present participle enhoneying, simple past and past participle enhoneyed)

  1. (rare) To sweeten (figuratively); to entice, allure.
    • I well perceive they are but scoffers, which sute and apply themselves unto our foolishnesse, thereby to enhonny [translating emmieler] and allure us to these opinions and hopes fitting our mortall appetite.1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC
    • A high price to one so afflicted is a temptation and peril; it enhoneys and allures, inflames him with renewed madness for possession.1950, Holbrook Jackson, The Anatomy of Bibliomania, Illinois, published 2001, page 551

Forms of enhoney

third-person singular presentenhoneys
present participleenhoneying
past participleenhoneyed
pastenhoneyed

Origin of enhoney

From en- + honey.

Questions about enhoney

What does enhoney mean?
Enhoney means to sweeten (figuratively); to entice, allure.
What part of speech is enhoney?
Enhoney is a verb.
What is the past tense of enhoney?
The past tense of enhoney is enhoneyed.

Words near enhoney in the dictionary

  1. enheriting
  2. enheritour
  3. enheritours
  4. enherits
  5. ENHG
  6. enhoney
  7. enhoneys
  8. enhorrored
  9. enhorsed
  10. enhort
  11. enhorted

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