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enchantress
English
Alternative forms
- enchauntress, inchantress (both obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English enchaunteresse, from Old French enchanteresse.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /?n?t?ænt??s/, /?n?t?ænt??s/, /-??s/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?n?t???nt??s/, /?n?t???nt??s/, /-??s/
Noun
enchantress (plural enchantresses, masculine enchanter)
- A woman, especially an attractive one, skilled at using magic; an alluring witch.
- A beautiful, charming and irresistible woman.
- She was the enchantress of men's hearts.
- A femme fatale.
- His desire for that enchantress led him to financial ruin!
Synonyms
- (alluring witch): siren, sorceress
- (beautiful woman): See Thesaurus:beautiful woman
- (femme fatale): See Thesaurus:vamp
Translations
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enchanter
English
Alternative forms
- enchantor, inchantor, enchantour, enchauntour, inchanter (all obsolete)
- enchauntor (obsolete, rare)
Etymology
From Middle English enchantour, from Old French enchanteor (Modern French enchanteur), from Latin incant?tor (“enchanter; spellcaster; conjurer”), from incant?re (“to sing, to consecrate with spells”). Doublet of incantator. Equivalent to enchant +? -er.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?n?t???nt?/, /?n?t???nt?/, /?n?t???nt?/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?n?t?ænt?/, /?n?t?ænt?/, /?n?t?ænt?/
Noun
enchanter (plural enchanters, feminine enchantress)
- One who enchants or delights.
- 1991, "Critics' Voices" in Time, 11 February, 1991, [1]
- Robert Morse brings back to life the author, wit, bon vivant, self-pitier and true enchanter that was Truman Capote in this Tony-winning one-man performance […]
- 1991, "Critics' Voices" in Time, 11 February, 1991, [1]
- A spellcaster, conjurer, wizard, sorcerer or soothsayer who specializes in enchantments.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, Book One, Indianapolis: Hackett, 2006, Canto VII, stanza 35, p. 113,
- No magicke arts hereof had any might, / Nor bloody wordes of bold Enchaunters call, / But all that was not such, as seemd in sight, / Before that shield did fade, and suddeine fall:
- 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, Book XI, Chapter VIII, [2]
- He was indeed as bitter an enemy to the savage authority too often exercised by husbands and fathers, over the young and lovely of the other sex, as ever knight-errant was to the barbarous power of enchanters; nay, to say truth, I have often suspected that those very enchanters with which romance everywhere abounds were in reality no other than the husbands of those days; and matrimony itself was, perhaps, the enchanted castle in which the nymphs were said to be confined.
- 1820, Percy Bysshe Shelley, "Ode to the West Wind", lines 2-3, [3]
- Thou from whose unseen presence the leaves dead / Are driven like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing,
- 1949, George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Part One, Chapter 1, [4]
- […] Goldstein […] seemed like some sinister enchanter, capable by the mere power of his voice of wrecking the structure of civilization.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, Book One, Indianapolis: Hackett, 2006, Canto VII, stanza 35, p. 113,
Derived terms
- enchanter's nightshade
Translations
Anagrams
- re-enchant, reenchant
French
Etymology
From Old French enchanter, probably borrowed from Latin incant?re, present active infinitive of incant?. Doublet of incanter.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??.???.te/
Verb
enchanter
- (transitive) to enchant
Conjugation
Derived terms
- enchanté
Related terms
- chanter
Further reading
- “enchanter” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Middle English
Noun
enchanter
- Alternative form of enchauntour
Old French
Etymology
Probably borrowed from Latin incant?re, present active infinitive of incant?, from cantus (“song; chant”). Compare chant, chanter, etc.
Verb
enchanter
- to enchant (to put under the power of an enchantment)
- c. 1261, Rutebeuf, Ci commence le miracle de Théophile
- Sui trop fort enchantez.
- c. 1261, Rutebeuf, Ci commence le miracle de Théophile
Conjugation
This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. The forms that would normally end in *-ts, *-tt are modified to z, t. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.
Derived terms
- enchantement
Related terms
- chanter
Descendants
- ? Middle English: enchaunten, enchaunte, enchanten, enchant
- English: enchant
- Scots: enchant
- French: enchanter
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