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inchantress

inchantress is the obsolete form of enchantress.

Meaning of enchantress

Noun

enchantress (plural enchantresses)

  1. A woman, especially an attractive one, skilled at using magic; an alluring witch.
    • Him fortuned (hard fortune ye may gheſſe)
      To come, where vile Acraſia does wonne [live],
      Acraſia a falſe enchauntereſſe,
      That many errant knightes hath fowle fordonne: […]1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 51, page 201
    Synonyms:
    siren, sorceress
  2. A beautiful, charming and irresistible woman.
    • She was the enchantress of men’s hearts.
  3. A femme fatale.
    • His desire for that enchantress led him to financial ruin.
    Synonyms:
    vamp

Forms of inchantress

pluralinchantresses

Questions about inchantress

What is inchantress the obsolete form of?
Inchantress is the obsolete form of enchantress.

Words near inchantress in the dictionary

  1. inchanter
  2. inchanters
  3. inchanting
  4. inchantment
  5. inchantments
  6. inchantress
  7. inchantresses
  8. inchants
  9. incharge
  10. incharges
  11. incharitable

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Adapted from Wiktionary: inchantress (page history and authors); enchantress (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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