Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Depriving of heart or thought; ecstatic.
- Stealing the heart or affections; winning.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Depriving of thought; ecstatic.
- adjective Stealing the heart or affections; winning.
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Examples
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Covin's strains; nevertheless he has himself taken a draught from the true Elizabethan fount of lyric inspiration, and the nymph Chloris with her heart-robbing eye well deserves a place on the snow-soft downs where the sonneteering shepherds were wont to assemble.
Elizabethan Sonnet Cycles: Idea, Fidesa and Chloris William Smith 1597
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