Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The quality which makes a person or thing bewitching.
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- noun The state or quality of being
bewitching .
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Examples
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"You don't mean to say, Micah, that there's any person for beauty and bewitchingness to be compared with Mrs. McNab?"
Adèle Dubois A Story of the Lovely Miramichi Valley in New Brunswick Mrs. William T. Savage
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We now enter the defile or détroit, at which point grace and bewitchingness are exchanged for sublimity and grandeur, and the scenery of the Causses and the Tarn reach their acme.
The Roof of France Matilda Betham-Edwards 1877
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The attitude had its bewitchingness: the girl's physical pride of stature scorning to bend under a load of conscious guilt, had a certain black-angel beauty for which he felt a hugging hatred: and according to his policy when these fits of amorous meditation seized him, he burst from the present one in the mood of his more favourable conception of Clara, and sought her out.
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868
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The attitude had its bewitchingness: the girl's physical pride of stature scorning to bend under a load of conscious guilt, had a certain black-angel beauty for which he felt a hugging hatred: and according to his policy when these fits of amorous meditation seized him, he burst from the present one in the mood of his more favourable conception of Clara, and sought her out.
The Egoist George Meredith 1868
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