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from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of enthralling, or state of being enthralled. See
inthrallment .
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- noun The act of
enthralling or the state of being enthralled
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a feeling of great liking for something wonderful and unusual
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Examples
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Video games engage children with continuous action, a concept known as "enthrallment," that raises the threshold for engagement, Freedman said.
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And yet the adoration and enthrallment of Obama, at least so among the committed left and the marginal voter who is too easily co-opted, continues apace.
The Volokh Conspiracy » 13 States File Suit Against Health Care Reform 2010
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Obviously, it is an ur-text of the American enthrallment with Paris.
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Obviously, it is an ur-text of the American enthrallment with Paris.
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Obviously, it is an ur-text of the American enthrallment with Paris.
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For a man planning annihilation and world-wide domination, traffic safety would seem an odd preoccupation, but such was the Führer's enthrallment with all things automotive and his dedication to motorizing a German public poised at the starting line of the Thousand Year Reich.
What a Long Strange Trip Patrick Cooke 2012
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But these experiences reflect enthrallment with your own feeling of being "in love," much more than a response to the reality of the other.
Douglas LaBier: Why Your Love Life Is a Version of Adolescent Romance 2010
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And in your state of enthrallment, your heart flutters -- like a lovesick adolescent, you can't help but wonder if maybe she likes you too.
Hope, Hype, and the Many Faces of Barack Obama Hamdan Azhar 2010
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But by now whatever initial enthrallment I'd had with the idea of the BeautifulPeople brand had turned to boredom, and the repulsion set in.
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And in your state of enthrallment, your heart flutters -- like a lovesick adolescent, you can't help but wonder if maybe she likes you too.
Hamdan Azhar: Hope, Hype, and the Many Faces of Barack Obama 2010
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