endazzle
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[edit]endazzle (third-person singular simple present endazzles, present participle endazzling, simple past and past participle endazzled)
- (archaic, transitive) To dazzle.
- 1828, Henry Edmund Carrington, The Plymouth and Devonport Guide[1], page 267:
- Patches of bright blue sky gladdened the gaze, and the sun again shone forth with endazzling lustre.
- 1859, John Brougham, Art and Artifice; or, Woman's Love[2], page 11:
- I am not endazzled by a blinding love that shuts out all the sure necessities of life.
- 1917, John F. Howard, “Columbia”, in The Tripod[3], volume 13, number 46, page 4:
- From all the earth thy pilgrims came / And to thy glory bow, / The diadem of human hopes / Endazzling thy fair brow!