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Definition of Enchantment
Enchantment

The act of enchanting; the production of certain wonderful effects by the aid of demons, or the agency of supposed spirits; the use of magic arts, spells, or charms; incantation.

The effect produced by the act; the state of being enchanted; as, to break an enchantment.

That which captivates the heart and senses; an influence or power which fascinates or highly delights.

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Enchantment Quotations

Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment.
Plato

The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found?
J. B. Priestley

Study lends a kind of enchantment to all our surroundings.
Honore de Balzac

It is quite cruel that a poet cannot wander through his regions of enchantment without having a critic, forever, like the old man of the sea, upon his back.
Marianne Moore

From the very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst the flowers.
Lucretius

Enchantment Translations

enchantment in Dutch is toverij
enchantment in French is ensorcellement, enchantement
enchantment in German is Verzauberung, Bezauberung, Bezauberung
enchantment in Norwegian is fortryllelse
enchantment in Spanish is encantamiento


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