enhoney

Etymology

From en- + honey.

enhoney means to sweeten (figuratively); to entice, allure. Lexicurio rates it Rare gem — a strength score of 84 out of 100.

Why this word is great

ENHONEY — [Verb] To sweeten figuratively; to entice or allure. From the English prefix en- (meaning "to put into or on") + honey (meaning "sweet substance"), thus literally "to put honey on". Unlike "flatter," a transaction of insincere praise, or "sweeten," a practical adjustment of literal taste, to enhoney is to perform a quiet alchemy upon perception itself. It is the slant of light that gilds a dusty room, the mellifluous phrasing that makes a harsh truth bearable, or the memory filtered of its brambles, leaving only the scent of linden blossoms—a conscious daub of gold on the fraying edges of things to make the world endurable.

verb

To sweeten (figuratively); to entice, allure.“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.”