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Definition of Enchantresses
1. enchantress [n] - See also: enchantress
Lexicographical Neighbors of Enchantresses
Literary usage of Enchantresses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Women in the Fine Arts: From the Seventh Century B.C. to the Twentieth by Clara Erskine Clement Waters (1904)
"... and Son," and the " Sirens," 1903, which is a picture of three nude enchantresses,
on a sandy shore, watching a distant galley among rocky islets. ..."
2. The Cornhill Magazine by George Smith (1861)
"What enchantresses, I wonder, weaving mystic signs in the air, ever worked to such
... Besides all the enchantresses, there is a little printer's devil, ..."
3. Germany by Heinrich Heine, Charles Godfrey Leland (1906)
"... are elementary spirits or enchantresses, that is, enchantresses of the old
heathen stamp, who differ so decidedly from the later witch-sisterhood. ..."
4. Teutonic mythology by Jacob Grimm, James Steven Stallybrass (1883)
"Enchanters and enchantresses (I will start with that) attach themselves to the
spectral ... Bat enchantresses would be ranged specially with goddesses, ..."
5. History of Beverly, Civil and Ecclesiastical: From Its Settlement in 1630 to by Edwin Martin Stone (1843)
"It was evident, however, that if such were the fact, the character of enchantresses
had radically changed. They were no longer like the " weird sisters " of ..."
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