enthrallment

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As an adult, I’ve tried to will myself back into enthrallment with this plucky heroine who repels a scary hobo, bravely goes without food and saves a poor Italian immigrant when others are against her.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 12, 2025

Are art critics people, prone to the familiar flurries of aversion and enthrallment?

From Washington Post • Apr. 20, 2023

During a break from production at the motel, where amenities include free WiFi and a pool, Hawley refers to that enthrallment as motivation for the show’s L.A. romp this season,

From Los Angeles Times • May 3, 2017

Gibney confesses to his own enthrallment to his iPhone, how “when it was in my pocket, for every idle moment, my hand was drawn to it like Frodo’s hand to the ring.”

From Slate • Oct. 13, 2015

Subjection -- N. subjection; dependence, dependency; subordination; thrall, thralldom, thraldom, enthrallment, subjugation, bondage, serfdom; feudalism, feudality†; vassalage, villenage; slavery, enslavement, involuntary servitude; conquest. service; servitude, servitorship†; tendence†, employ, tutelage, clientship†; liability &c.

From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Roget, Peter Mark