Both Uses of
enthrall
in
Don Quixote
- I only tell you that I shall preserve for ever inscribed on my memory the service you have rendered me in order to tender you my gratitude while life shall last me; and would to Heaven love held me not so enthralled and subject to its laws and to the eyes of that fair ingrate whom I name between my teeth, but that those of this lovely damsel might be the masters of my liberty.†
Chpt 1.15-16 *enthralled = held spellbound (with full attention captured)
- for so long as my memory is occupied, my will enslaved, and my understanding enthralled by her-I say no more—it is impossible for me for a moment to contemplate marriage, even with a Phoenix.†
Chpt 1.29-30
Definitions:
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(1)
(enthrall as in: enthralled by the story) to capture and hold someone's full attention -- often by being fascinating, exciting, or beautiful
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Much more rarely, in the past enthrall could reference enslavement.