smitten

[ UK /smˈɪtən/ ]
[ US /ˈsmɪtən/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. (used in combination) affected by something overwhelming
    conscience-smitten
    awe-struck
  2. marked by foolish or unreasoning fondness
    Narcissus was a beautiful Greek youth who became enamored of his own reflection
    he was infatuated with her
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How To Use smitten In A Sentence

  • He became the icon that God had to smite to be able to save us, and suddenly the Lamb of God was smitten! FROM THE CROSS TO PENTECOST
  • It's just that none of those festivals claims to be untarnished by commerce, unsmitten by celebrity, etc., etc. GreenCine Daily: Park City, 2/1.
  • Formerly women smitten with incubacy had frigid flesh even in the month of August. Là-bas
  • To the same purport is v. 8, for the transgression of my people was he smitten, the stroke was upon him that should have been upon us; and so some read it, He was cut off for the iniquity of my people, unto whom the stroke belonged, or was due. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
  • His campy gay stereotype act is hilarious, especially since he drops it with a roll of his eyes whenever the smitten guards aren't watching.
  • He was smitten and conceived an ambition to become a cartoonist. Times, Sunday Times
  • Ray is instantly smitten with the pretty and squeaky-clean Wendy, pursuing her with an undisguised lust, oblivious to the feelings of her boring husband.
  • The trembling women were smitten into an ecstasy of bewildered fear (as one of the words, 'affrighted' might more accurately be rendered), and his consolation to them, 'Be not affrighted, ye seek Jesus,' suggests that, in all the great sweep of the unseen universe, whatsoever beings may people that to us apparently waste and solitary space, howsoever many they may be, Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Mark
  • I read the treatise through, and was so smitten with the accurate view it exhibited of the theatres of these days, that I immediately determined to transport myself, as well as I could, to the golden times of the _beheader of Mary Queen of Scots_. The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 3
  • The smitten young translator began to learn Ukrainian, using dictionaries and poetry anthologies as her tools. Times, Sunday Times
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