Verb (used with object), : to be hypnotically entranced. From Dictionary.com.
"Well?" she asked, jarring him from his entrancement. From Wordnik.com. [Winds Of Fate]
Her entrancement had increased — her eyes rested upon. From Wordnik.com. [The Beautiful and Damned] Reference
Susan couldn't be less subtle about her entrancement with Emmett if she tried. From Wordnik.com. [Microserfs]
Yet again in utter entrancement both once again in one accord finished breatheless. From Wordnik.com. [The Crossroads of Love ch.7] Reference
But it wasn't the crowd that had broken his entrancement; it was that single person. From Wordnik.com. [Magic's Price]
These elements fascinated, yet by themselves were not enough to explain my entrancement. From Wordnik.com. [Being with Thin Girls] Reference
It is the downing of life and entrancement and an eager touching of something you know not. From Wordnik.com. [outfoxed Diary Entry] Reference
Annie didn't coo or aah over the puppy, but squatted at eye level in a reverie of mutual entrancement. From Wordnik.com. [Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine]
I find this particular soft sell of evangelical oratory style mind numbing to the point of entrancement. From Wordnik.com. [The Marketing of the President 2008] Reference
Shaken out of his entrancement, this time the mind-voice penetrated the wash of fire and the terrible joy. From Wordnik.com. [Brightly Burning]
I don't understand the source of this mysterious entrancement myself, but I'm fairly confident it will pass. From Wordnik.com. [Quote Of The Day] Reference
Released from her entrancement, Kethry stared at her partner, not certain whether to be frightened, angry or both. From Wordnik.com. [The Oathbound]
This young man was at the time a medical student, and had always exhibited a tendency to entrancement, or catalepsy. From Wordnik.com. [Cosmic Consciousness] Reference
Lance Mannion finds entrancement in Heather Graham's eyes, and Cassavetes candor in the desperate abandon of her behind. From Wordnik.com. [Heather Graham; H'wood nepotism] Reference
But not only his finales are full of that entrancement. From Wordnik.com. [Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers] Reference
He was afraid of his own young rashness and the entrancement of the dream. From Wordnik.com. [Robin] Reference
Her entrancement usually starts with scenes of the events which followed the Last Supper. From Wordnik.com. [Autobiography of a Yogi] Reference
When the entrancement is accomplished, the manifestations may take place in different ways. From Wordnik.com. [Genuine Mediumship or The Invisible Powers] Reference
He seemed to wake up at last out of his entrancement, and the red sun was there before his eyes. From Wordnik.com. [The World Set Free] Reference
Cuz if that was the case i'm sure that those companys would have asked for the entrancement price. From Wordnik.com. [GameSpot's News, Screenshots, Movies, Reviews, Previews, Downloads, and Features] Reference
He looked round -- everywhere the same unmoving faces, the same entrancement, and fierce stillness. From Wordnik.com. [Villa Rubein, and other stories] Reference
Under the affectedly careless scrutiny of the hostess he falls dramatically into an attitude of awed entrancement. From Wordnik.com. [The Spenders A Tale of the Third Generation] Reference
Happy times when six children, all in all to each other, told wonderful stories in low voices for their own entrancement. From Wordnik.com. [Emily Brontë] Reference
Have you ever been so engrossed in a game that you risked and/or experienced personal injury as a result of your entrancement?. From Wordnik.com. [Destructoid] Reference
As enthralling as their records are, the lack of entrancement seemed a bit off, and made it hard to maintain focus on the band. From Wordnik.com. [Denver Post: All Blogs] Reference
With a fierce effort I tried to escape from my entrancement, to be interested in these unreal shadows whose voices seemed to come to me from. From Wordnik.com. [Sacred and Profane Love] Reference
Her entrancement had increased -- her eyes rested upon a Semitic violinist who swayed his shoulders to the rhythm of the year's mellowest fox-trot. From Wordnik.com. [The Beautiful and Damned] Reference
"There's"Goddess, there's a counterspell-" Kethry started out of her entrancement. From Wordnik.com. [Oathbreaker]
Her entrancement with the dancers ended. From Wordnik.com. [Best Kept Secrets]
Didn't you feel the entrancement of the dance?. From Wordnik.com. [Renegade's Magic]
I pass the night without awaking, and in the evening, when I go to bed, a sort of entrancement prevents me from giving way to reflections. ". From Wordnik.com. [A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 6] Reference
Its blank entrancement now as evermore. From Wordnik.com. [Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism] Reference
Me hath such strong entrancement overcome. From Wordnik.com. [THE PRELUDE BOOK FIFTH] Reference
With wild entrancement, and ecstatic tears. From Wordnik.com. [The Odyssey] Reference
Each winding creek in grave entrancement lies. From Wordnik.com. [Poets of the South] Reference
Long time entrancement held me: all too soon. From Wordnik.com. [The Suppressed Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson] Reference
Or rather felt, the entrancement that detains. From Wordnik.com. [THE RIVER DUDDON A SERIES OF SONNETS, 1820. XX. THE PLAIN OF DONNERDALE] Reference
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