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inamor

inamor is the archaic form of enamor.

Meaning of enamor

Verb

enamor (third-person singular simple present enamors, present participle enamoring, simple past and past participle enamored)

  1. (US) To cause to be in love.
    • Me-thought I was enamoured of an Asse.1596, William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act IV, Scene I
  2. (US) To captivate.
    • Passionately enamoured of this shadow of a dream.1824, Geoffrey Crayon [pseudonym; Washington Irving], Tales of a Traveller, (please specify |part=1 to 4), Philadelphia, Pa.: H[enry] C[harles] Carey & I[saac] Lea, […], →OCLC

Forms of inamor

third-person singular presentinamors
present participleinamoring
past participleinamored
pastinamored

Questions about inamor

What is inamor the archaic form of?
Inamor is the archaic form of enamor.

Words near inamor in the dictionary

  1. inamicability
  2. inamicable
  3. inamicably
  4. inamissible
  5. inamissibleness
  6. inamor
  7. inamor'd
  8. inamorata
  9. inamoratas
  10. inamorate
  11. inamorati

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