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Enthrallment

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en·thrall  (n-thrôl)
tr.v. en·thralled, en·thrall·ing, en·thralls
1. To hold spellbound; captivate: The magic show enthralled the audience.
2. To enslave.

[Middle English, to put in bondage : en-, causative pref.; see en-1 + thrall, slave; see thrall.]

en·thralling·ly adv.
en·thrallment n.
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Noun1.enthrallment - a feeling of great liking for something wonderful and unusual
liking - a feeling of pleasure and enjoyment; "I've always had a liking for reading"; "she developed a liking for gin"


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Other images on display include a gangrenous foot, a junkie giving birth to a deformed baby, and a girl who moves from fresh-faced enthusiasm to sunken-cheeked enthrallment in a series of tableaux.
All writers know that state of enthrallment, and to a greater or lesser degree will exploit people in order to bring it to the page.
The novel is set in Italy, and while it seems initially to mock the two Futurists after her break with them, it also enacts Loy's enthrallment with them.
 
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