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entrancing

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en·trance 1  (ntrns)
n.
1. The act or an instance of entering.
2. A means or point by which to enter.
3. Permission or power to enter; admission: gained entrance to medical school.
4. The point, as in a musical score, at which a performer begins.
5. The first entry of an actor into a scene.
6. Nautical The immersed part of a ship's hull forward of the middle body.

[Middle English entraunce, right to enter, from Old French, from entrer, to enter; see enter.]
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Adj.1.entrancing - capturing interest as if by a spell; "bewitching smile"; "Roosevelt was a captivating speaker"; "enchanting music"; "an enthralling book"; "antique papers of entrancing design"; "a fascinating woman"
attractive - pleasing to the eye or mind especially through beauty or charm; "a remarkably attractive young man"; "an attractive personality"; "attractive clothes"; "a book with attractive illustrations"
Translations

entrancing [ɪnˈtrɑːnsɪŋ] adjencantador(a)
entrancing [ɪnˈtrɑːnsɪŋ] adjenchanteur/eresse, ravissant(e)
entrancing [ɪnˈtrɑːnsɪŋ] entrance adjbezaubernd
entrancing [ɪnˈtrɑːnsɪŋ] adjincantevole

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That which for Vronsky had been almost a whole year the one absorbing desire of his life, replacing all his old desires; that which for Anna had been an impossible, terrible, and even for that reason more entrancing dream of bliss, that desire had been fulfilled.
There was no knowing what would come, since this strange entrancing delight had come.
Terry O'Sullivan, with his entrancing bow, relinquished a pretty girl in blue to her partner and started back to find Maggie.
 
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