An object of extravagant short-lived passion

Usage examples of infatuation.

In spite of my infatuation for her, I could not make up my mind to such a step, and I went on seeing her and courting her in the hope that she would alter her decision.

Lord, that the queen desires for you only two objects of infatuation: myself, who does not matter, and of course the queen herself.

Their infatuation encouraging me, I spoke like a learned physician, I dogmatized, I quoted authors whom I had never read.

When the matter had blown over, and Marceline had forgotten about her new infatuation, it would be time enough to have Denis on hand again.

Is it not a strange infatuation to rank the moments of affliction among the evil events of our lives, when these may prove the very means of bringing back our wandering feet to the path which leads to everlasting life?

And now there was another purpose in the evil mind of the Beduin who had conceived for the white girl an infatuation that was driving him to the verge of madness.

Skandranon watching Zhaneel from afar like a lovesick brancher in a juvenile infatuation.

I learned that lesson long ago the hard way, when I was an upscale defense attorney with an infatuation for the civil litigator down the hall.

And like a schoolgirl of seventeen instead of a spinster of seven-and-twenty, she continued to harbor a ridiculous infatuation for him.

At these words I rose and went to the window, where I stayed for more than a quarter of an hour reflecting on her infatuation.

Now all was mooning about lost lovers and new infatuations, prime interests to the subteen set.

Lesley Woolfe and the rest of them thought about him and his infatuation, a shout that had interested him less and less over the past few weeks.

My sister, Ruthie, was a carhop for two summers and set the record for falling in love, her two-month summer gig resulting in 4eacba infatuations and 3eaifd Real Things.

But the counsel of the baneful goddess Cypris was working out its accomplishment, who brought upon them soul destroying infatuation.

Higgs, and knew nothing about him except the too little that I told him, pressed his suit, and about a month after Higgs had gone, having recovered my passing infatuation for him, I took kindly to the Mayor and accepted him, without telling him what I ought to have told him--but the words stuck in my throat.