entrancing

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of entrance

comparative more entrancing · superlative most entrancing

1. Causing a trance-like state; hypnotic.
2. Causing ecstasy or rapture; enrapturing; charming.

   But, behind and above them all, hovered the shape of that awful woman, and through them gleamed the memory of her entrancing loveliness.

   1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC

plural entrancings

1. The process by which somebody is entranced.

   […] as baby kisses here, that are almost meaningless plays, come to an age of adolescence and to romantic entrancings.

   1859, Hugh Smith Carpenter, Here and Beyond: Or, The New Man, the True Man, page 318