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inamour

inamour 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 inamour

third-person singular presentinamours
present participleinamouring
past participleinamoured
pastinamoured

Questions about inamour

What is inamour the archaic form of?
Inamour is the archaic form of enamor.

Words near inamour in the dictionary

  1. inamoratos
  2. inamored
  3. inamoretta
  4. inamorettas
  5. inamors
  6. inamour
  7. inamour'd
  8. inamoured
  9. inamours
  10. inamovable
  11. inamrinone

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Adapted from Wiktionary: inamour (page history and authors); enamor (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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