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Antonyms for entrancement

Grammar : Noun
Spell : en-trans, -trahns
Phonetic Transcription : ɛnˈtræns, -ˈtrɑns


Definition of entrancement

Origin :
  • 1520s, "act of entering," from Middle French entrance, from entrer (see enter). Sense of "door, gate" first recorded in English 1530s.
  • As in abstraction : noun state of being lost in thought
Example sentences :
  • He was afraid of his own young rashness and the entrancement of the dream.
  • Extract from : « Robin » by Frances Hodgson Burnett
  • He seemed to wake up at last out of his entrancement, and the red sun was there before his eyes.
  • Extract from : « The World Set Free » by Herbert George Wells
  • A timid reserve followed the first entrancement, but it was the struggle of respect, of honour against a fatal passion.
  • Extract from : « The Key to the Bront Works » by John Malham-Dembleby
  • When the entrancement is accomplished, the manifestations may take place in different ways.
  • Extract from : « Genuine Mediumship or The Invisible Powers » by Bhakta Vishita
  • Spring came, and the tune changed with the entrancement of Persephone's release in the balmy warmth of the South.
  • Extract from : « The Life, Letters and Work of Frederic Leighton » by Mrs. Russell Barrington
  • I will go into the country and philosophise; some gleams of past entrancement may visit me there.
  • Extract from : « The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume II (of 2) » by Florence A. Thomas Marshall
  • Happy times when six children, all in all to each other, told wonderful stories in low voices for their own entrancement.
  • Extract from : « Emily Bront » by A. Mary F. (Agnes Mary Frances) Robinson
  • The eye of the young chief followed her with the gaze of entrancement.
  • Extract from : « Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 3 (of 3) » by James Athearn Jones
  • Her entrancement usually starts with scenes of the events which followed the Last Supper.
  • Extract from : « Autobiography of a YOGI » by Paramhansa Yogananda
  • Alice's entrancement—love, to call it by the right name—audible and visible in every word, every look, added to her confusion.
  • Extract from : « Mary » by Bjornstjerne Bjornson

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