Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Witchery; fascination; charm.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The power of bewitching or fascinating; bewitchment; charm; fascination.

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  • noun The power of bewitching or fascinating; charm.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun magnetic personal charm

Etymologies

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bewitch +‎ -ery?

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Examples

  • But it was a most irreligious religion, made up of traditions and human inventions; a strange kind of bewitchery rather than religion; that they should choose rather that the Messiah should be cut off than that religion be changed.

    From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979

  • Or is it a 'bewitchery'? "he asked, only half in joke.

    Far to Seek A Romance of England and India Maud Diver 1906

  • “It is the only honest ‘bewitchery’ that I have ever seen,” Kalas spat.

    Immortalis Salvatore, R. A., 1959- 2003

  • The gipsy fascination, the abandoned, perverse bewitchery of this female devil of the dance is not to be described by mouth, typewriter, or quilled pen.

    The Merry-Go-Round Carl Van Vechten 1922

  • Under its lordly bewitchery, Erastianism prevails in the Established Churches of the kingdom.

    The Covenants And The Covenanters Covenants, Sermons, and Documents of the Covenanted Reformation Various 1876

  • The pursuit has always interested my imagination more than any other, and I remember before having my first portrait taken, there was a great bewitchery in the idea, as if it were a magic process.

    Passages from the American Notebooks, Volume 2. Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834

  • This, I say, is that which makes them sell eternity for a song, give away their souls for a trifle, and turn their backs upon glory and immortality, and God himself, under the pinch of any present pain, or the bewitchery of some present pleasure.

    Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. IV. 1634-1716 1823

  • The truth is, he who shall duly consider these matters, will find that there is a certain bewitchery, or fascination in words, which makes them operate with a force beyond what we can naturally give an account of.

    Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. II. 1634-1716 1823

  • But seals are extraordinarily cute, celebrities love them (have you ever seen Paul McCartney hug a cow?) and animal rights activists use that emotional bewitchery to tug on people's heartstrings.

    Toronto Sun 2010

  • But seals are extraordinarily cute, celebrities love them (have you ever seen Paul McCartney hug a cow?) and animal rights activists use that emotional bewitchery to tug on people's heartstrings.

    London Free Press 2010

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