Enamor vs Adore - What's the difference?
enamor | adore |
To inflame with love; to charm; to captivate; — with of'', or ''with , before the person or thing; as, to be enamored with a lady; to be enamored of books or science.
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To worship.
*(Tobias Smollett) (1721–1771)
*:Bishops and priests,bearing the host, which he [James] publicly adored .
To love with one's entire heart and soul; regard with deep respect and affection.
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* (1800-1859)
*:The great mass of the population abhorred Popery and adored Montouth.
To be very fond of.
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*:"I ought to arise and go forth with timbrels and with dances; but, do you know, I am not inclined to revels? There has been a little—just a very little bit too much festivity so far …. Not that I don't adore dinners and gossip and dances; not that I do not love to pervade bright and glittering places."
(lb) To adorn.
*(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
*:Like to the hore / Congealed drops, which do the morn adore .
As verbs the difference between enamor and adore
is that enamor is to inflame with love; to charm; to captivate; — with of'', or ''with , before the person or thing; as, to be enamored with a lady; to be enamored of books or science while adore is .enamor
English
Alternative forms
* enamour (British spelling) * inamor (archaic) * inamour (archaic)Verb
(en verb)- Passionately enamored of this shadow of a dream.