mystification

• The book of mystification was then almost ungratefully closed, and the serious business of packing commenced On the 20th of December, 1882, my wife and I Fired with ideas of fair Italy started on our travels in good spirits. —  Fair Italy, the Riviera and Monte Carlo Comprising a Tour Through North and South Italy and Sicily with a Short Account of Malta
• Yet her mystification was in no wise made clearer, when David left them to go to St. Louis Melicent was not ready or willing to leave with him. —  At Fault
• The scene emphasizes once again the beauty of technical power for its own sake, the thrill of discarding all that is not immediately essential to simple and direct realization Little can be said of the play beyond this point, for it dwindles off into sentimental mystification which cannot be enjoyed by anyone under fifty, or appreciated by anyone under eighteen. —  Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets
• Not one in a hundred of his acquaintances even, suspected the fact; and nothing would have been easier for him, than to have imposed on his brother, by inducing him to make a will under some legal mystification or other, and to have caused Tom Wychecombe to succeed to the property in question, by an indisputable title. —  The Two Admirals
• Irene scribbled away delightedly, but Lorna, who had almost forgotten the nursery rhymes of her childhood, was in much mystification, and only filled in a few of the vacant spaces. —  The Jolliest School of All

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