enchantments

plural of enchantment

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Recent Examples of enchantments These days, many people who love the North Rim speak of it as a lost world, a kingdom whose enchantments have gone up in smoke and whose luster will never be the same. New York Times, 16 Mar. 2026 Bagehot and other upholders of depoliticizing enchantments could not have imagined a scenario in which Andrew, once second in line for the throne, and Larry Summers, a former Ivy League president hailed as one of America’s leading public intellectuals, are caught up in the Jeffrey Epstein scandal. Sean Williams, Harpers Magazine, 27 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for enchantments
Noun
  • The 1995 Chicago heat wave is the most notorious and deadly of the city's hot spells, and in fact the deadliest weather event in the city's history.
    Adam Harrington, CBS News, 1 July 2026
  • And England had been desperately poor for long spells of the game, tense, panicked, shambolic in defence.
    Jack Pitt-Brooke, New York Times, 1 July 2026
Noun
  • But there might be ancient magics trapped underground as well, sparking competing interests with Cod’s potential discoveries in this standalone adventure.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 2 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Circe is able, by means of drugs and incantations, to change humans into wolves, lions, and other animals.
    Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 1 July 2026
  • As prospective farmers struggled to clear forests for rice fields in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Malaya, their efforts might have been accompanied by mystical incantations like this invocation against Iblis, the Devil in Islamic tradition.
    H.M.A. Leow, JSTOR Daily, 24 Apr. 2026

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“Enchantments.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/enchantments. Accessed 8 Jul. 2026.

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