infatuateとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (verb) IPA^(key): /ɪnˈfætjuˌ(w)eɪt/, /ɪnˈfætʃuˌ(w)eɪt/
• (adjective, noun) IPA^(key): /ɪnˈfætju(w)ət/, /ɪnˈfætʃu(w)ət/

動詞

infatuate (三人称単数 現在形 infatuates, 現在分詞 infatuating, 過去形および過去分詞形 infatuated)

1. (transitive) To inspire with unreasoning love, attachment or enthusiasm.
   • 1872, Mark Twain, Roughing It, Hartford, Connecticut: American Publishing Company, Chapter 44, p. 308,^[1]

     If the mine was a “developed” one, and had no pay ore to show (かつ of course it hadn’t), we praised the tunnel; said it was one of the most infatuating tunnels in the land; driveled and driveled about the tunnel till we ran entirely out of ecstasies—but never said a word about the rock.

   • 1888, George Manville Fenn, One Maid’s Mischief, New York: Appleton, Chapter 15, p. 53,^[2]

     I declare the girl seems quite to infatuate the men, and see if trouble does not come of it.

2. (transitive, obsolete) To make foolish.
   • 1624, John Donne, Devotions upon Emergent Occasions, London: Thomas Jones, pp. 3-4,^[3]

     […] wee beggard our selues by hearkning after false riches, and infatuated our selues by hearkning after false knowledge.

   • 1718, Daniel Defoe, A Continuation of Letters Written by a Turkish Spy at Paris, London: W. Taylor, Letter 4, p. 20,^[4]

     Heaven doubtless has infatuated these Infidels, and given them up to dote on the grossest Absurdities; other wise they could never swallow such open and notorious Impositions […]

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