entrancing

English

Verb

entrancing

1. present participle and gerund of entrance

Adjective

entrancing (comparative more entrancing, superlative most entrancing)

1. Causing a trance-like state; hypnotic.
2. Causing ecstasy or rapture; enrapturing; charming.
   • 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:

     But, behind and above them all, hovered the shape of that awful woman, and through them gleamed the memory of her entrancing loveliness.

Derived terms

• entrancingly
• unentrancing

Noun

entrancing (plural entrancings)

1. The process by which somebody is entranced.
   • 1859, Hugh Smith Carpenter, Here and Beyond: Or, The New Man, the True Man, page 318:

     […] as baby kisses here, that are almost meaningless plays, come to an age of adolescence and to romantic entrancings.