All 3 Uses of
infatuated
in
The House of Mirth
- But if Selden's infatuation seemed a fatal necessity, the effect that his name produced shook Gerty's steadfastness with a last pang.†
Chpt 1.14 *
- It was ridiculous to be flying like an emotional coward from an infatuation his reason had conquered.†
Chpt 2.1
- It was Bertha whose confidence she sought, and who should as eagerly have invited her own; and Bertha, as if in the infatuation of self-destruction, was actually pushing away her rescuing hand.†
Chpt 2.3
Definition:
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(infatuated) under the unreasoning spell of new love or attraction