enfeloned

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/ɪnˈfɛlənd/

adjective

Rendered fierce or frantic.

OriginOld French enfelonné →
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Meanings

adjectiveenfeloned (comparative more enfeloned, superlative most enfeloned)

comparative more enfeloned · superlative most enfeloned

  1. obsoletepoeticRendered fierce or frantic.

    Out of her fist the wicked weapon caught: / With that like one enfelon'd or distraught,

    1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 48
verb
  1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of enfelon

Origin

  1. Old Frenchenfelonné
  2. Englishenfeloned

Calque of Old French enfelonné, past participle of enfelonner (“to irritate; to anger”).

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APA

enfeloned. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/enfeloned

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Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “enfeloned,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/enfeloned.

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