endazzle

English

Etymology

From en- +‎ dazzle.

Verb

endazzle (third-person singular simple present endazzles, present participle endazzling, simple past and past participle endazzled)

  1. (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, archived from the original on 22 August 2023, page 4:
      From all the earth thy pilgrims came / And to thy glory bow, / The diadem of human hopes / Endazzling thy fair brow!

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