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totally in love or captivated by

Politicians aren't generally enamored with the suggestion that they surrender power to the marketplace.

she had been passionately enamored of a dignified and sad-eyed cavalry officer
Kate Chopin -- The Awakening
During our grade school years, we were enamored of polka dots and big stripes.
Sarah Dessen -- Dreamland

enamored = totally in love or captivated by

enamoured = totally in love or captivated by

(editor's note: This is a British spelling. Americans use enamored.)

I couldn't deny the sense of pride I had upon seeing Ben's face and how enamored he seemed by the illusion of the sun streaming through the room.
Bella Forrest -- A Shade of Vampire
Tartarus stomped and howled, apparently no longer enamored with having a physical form.
Rick Riordan -- The House of Hades
Cousin, I think thou art enamoured Upon his follies: never did I hear Of any prince so wild o' liberty.
William Shakespeare -- Henry IV, Part 1

(editor's note: This is a British spelling. Americans use enamored.)

Enamored of Tithonus, she persuaded Jupiter to grant him immortality, but forgot to ask for him immortal youth.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Selected Essays
As far, however, as it teaches any thing, it teaches us not to be enamoured of plurality in the Executive.
Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, & John Jay -- The Federalist Papers

(editor's note: This is a British spelling. Americans use enamored.)

But since your reverend wisdom hath discovered this Jewish queen to be a sorceress, perchance it may account fully for his enamoured folly.
Sir Walter Scott -- Ivanhoe

(editor's note: This is a British spelling. Americans use enamored.)

There was enough to praise, and if I came across as enamored by their talents, it would make sense to be confused about who to choose.
Kiera Cass -- The Heir
In some desperation we finally made a sally toward the enamored pair.
Farley Mowat -- Never Cry Wolf
But this tall beautiful girl—this woman, I should say—sitting next to me, so Eritrean and so enamored of things Italian, messed up my speech.
Abraham Verghese -- Cutting for Stone
Not because he didn't want to, not because he was enamored of the bachelor scene, but simply because it was impossible.
Nicholas Sparks -- True Believer
She seems enamored of you, Wolleck.
Gail Carson Levine -- Ella Enchanted
Nevertheless, Lincoln is enamored.
Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard -- Killing Lincoln
And then was he so enamoured upon her that he wist not whether he were on horseback or on foot.
Thomas Malory -- Le Morte D'Arthur

(editor's note: This is a British spelling. Americans use enamored.)

Italian monks who became enamoured of certain aunts would return to Italy to discard their robes and return to find the women already married.
Michael Ondaatje -- Running in the Family

(editor's note: This is a British spelling. Americans use enamored.)

Morning after morning he had sat before the portrait, wondering at its beauty, almost enamoured of it, as it seemed to him at times.
Oscar Wilde -- The Picture of Dorian Gray

(editor's note: This is a British spelling. Americans use enamored.)

For Clyde was now hopelessly enamored of Sondra and by no means to be changed, or moved even, by anything in connection with Roberta.
Theodore Dreiser -- An American Tragedy

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