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English
Etymology
From en- + honey.
Verb
enhoney (third-person singular simple present enhoneys, present participle enhoneying, simple past and past participle enhoneyed)
- (rare) To sweeten (figuratively); to entice, allure.
1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes , book II, London: Val Simmes for Edward Blount , →OCLC:I well perceive they are but scoffers, which sute and apply themselves unto our foolishnesse, thereby to enhonny [translating emmieler] and allure us to these opinions and hopes fitting our mortall appetite.
1950, Holbrook Jackson, The Anatomy of Bibliomania, Illinois, published 2001, page 551:A high price to one so afflicted is a temptation and peril; it enhoneys and allures, inflames him with renewed madness for possession.