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In literature, "enamored" is often used to evoke a sense of deep, almost consuming affection or admiration that can be directed toward a person, ideal, or even an abstract quality. Authors employ the word to depict both the tender and overpowering nature of infatuation, as seen when a character perceives another with heroic or princely qualities ([1], [2]), or when love for an ideal—be it the accuracy of one's art or the perfection of a moral code—is celebrated ([3], [4]). It also spans contexts beyond romantic love, such as being captivated by the splendor of nature or the allure of lofty political and philosophical ideas ([5], [6]), while occasionally hinting at the bittersweet or self-aware aspects of passion ([7], [8]).
  1. Fire-enamored and gliding into a perfumed haze of exquisite drowsiness, Claire saw Georgie as heroic and wise.
    — from Free Air by Sinclair Lewis
  2. Gertrude is enamored of Guy; how high, how aristocratic, how Roman his mien and manners!
    — from Essays — First Series by Ralph Waldo Emerson
  3. SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS AND TIMIDITY FOES TO SUCCESS XX. TACT OR COMMON SENSE XXI. ENAMORED OF ACCURACY XXII.
    — from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden
  4. There is nothing like being enamored of accuracy, being grounded in thoroughness as a life-principle, of always striving for excellence.
    — from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden
  5. Now if the rising sun I see, I feel the light that hath enamored me.
    — from The Poems of Emma Lazarus, Volume 2 Jewish poems: Translations by Emma Lazarus
  6. One consisted of enthusiastic young men, who were enamored with the idea of republican liberty.
    — from Benjamin Franklin A Picture of the Struggles of Our Infant Nation One Hundred Years Ago American Pioneers and Patriots Series by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott
  7. Enamored of Tithonus, she persuaded Jupiter to grant him immortality, but forgot to ask for him immortal youth.
    — from Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson
  8. So the enamored youth considered himself very wretched and stared fixedly at the ceiling so that the tears should not fall from his eyes.
    — from The Reign of Greed by José Rizal

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