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Enchanter

//ɪnˈtʃɑːntə// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    One who enchants or delights.

    "Robert Morse brings back to life the author, wit, bon vivant, self-pitier and true enchanter that was Truman Capote in this Tony-winning one-man performance […]"

  2. 2
    a sorcerer or magician wordnet
  3. 3
    A spellcaster, conjurer, wizard, sorcerer or soothsayer who specializes in enchantments.

    "1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, Book One, Indianapolis: Hackett, 2006, Canto VII, stanza 35, p. 113, No magicke arts hereof had any might, / Nor bloody wordes of bold Enchaunters call, / But all that was not such, as seemd in sight, / Before that shield did fade, and suddeine fall:"

Etymology

From Middle English enchantour, from Old French enchanteor (Modern French enchanteur), from Latin incantātor (“enchanter; spellcaster; conjurer”), from incantāre (“to sing, to consecrate with spells”). Doublet of incantator. Equivalent to enchant + -er.

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