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fascination
English
Etymology
From Latin fascinare ("to bewitch"), possibly from Ancient Greek ?????????? (baskaínien, “to speak ill of; to curse”)Morphologically fascinate +? -ion
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /fæs??ne???n/
- Rhymes: -e???n
Noun
fascination (countable and uncountable, plural fascinations)
- (archaic) The act of bewitching, or enchanting
- Synonyms: enchantment, witchcraft
- Little disappointed, then, she turned attention to "Chat of the Social World," gossip which exercised potent fascination upon the girl's intelligence.
- The state or condition of being fascinated.
- 1934, Robert Ervin Howard, The People of the Black Circle
- Sliding down the shaft he lay still, the spear jutting above him its full length, like a horrible stalk growing out of his back.
The girl stared down at him in morbid fascination, until Khemsa took her arm and led her through the gate.
- Sliding down the shaft he lay still, the spear jutting above him its full length, like a horrible stalk growing out of his back.
- 1913, Elizabeth Kimball Kendall, A Wayfarer in China
- But the compensations are many: changing scenes, long days out of doors, freedom from the bondage of conventional life, and above all, the fascination of living among peoples of primitive simplicity and yet of a civilization so ancient that it makes all that is oldest in the West seem raw and crude and unfinished.
- 1934, Robert Ervin Howard, The People of the Black Circle
- Something which fascinates.
Derived terms
- dread fascination
Translations
References
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fa.si.na.sj??/
Noun
fascination f (plural fascinations)
- fascination
Related terms
- fasciner
Further reading
- “fascination” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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allure
English
Etymology
From Middle English aluren, from Old French aleurer, alurer, from a (“to, towards”) (Latin ad) + leurre (“lure”). Compare lure.
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /??l(j)??/
- Rhymes: -??(?)
Noun
allure (countable and uncountable, plural allures)
- The power to attract, entice; the quality causing attraction.
- (dated) gait; bearing.
- Harper's Magazine
- The swing, the gait, the pose, the allure of these men.
- Harper's Magazine
- The walkway along the top of a castle wall, sometimes entirely covered and normally behind a parapet; the wall walk.
Translations
Verb
allure (third-person singular simple present allures, present participle alluring, simple past and past participle allured)
- (transitive) To entice; to attract.
Synonyms
- attract, entice, tempt, decoy, seduce
Translations
Related terms
- lure
Anagrams
- Laurel, laurel
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from French allure.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /???ly?.r?/
- Hyphenation: al?lu?re
- Rhymes: -y?r?
Noun
allure f (plural allures)
- air, pretension
Derived terms
- sterallure
French
Etymology
aller +? -ure.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a.ly?/
- Rhymes: -y?
Noun
allure f (plural allures)
- appearance, look
- speed, pace
- angle of a boat from the wind
- gait (of a horse)
- chemin de ronde (raised protected walkway behind a castle battlement)
Derived terms
- à toute allure
Descendants
- ? Dutch: allure
Further reading
- “allure” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams
- la leur
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