Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The act of bewitching.
- noun The power to bewitch.
- noun The state of being bewitched.
- noun A bewitching spell.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Fascination; power of charming; the effects of witchcraft.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of bewitching, or the state of being bewitched.
- noun The power of bewitching or charming.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The characteristic of being
bewitched .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a magical spell
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Examples
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The love that drives him increasingly looks like something baser and less flattering--a kind of bewitchment he seems helpless against, though it comes from within.
Archive 2009-08-16 2009
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Many Malawians hold similar beliefs about the possibility of bewitchment, and we had heard numerous disturbing tales involving children and witchcraft from other clients in the clinic.
Chi Mgbako: Aiding Children Accused of Witchcraft Chi Mgbako 2011
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Magic spells, poisons, potions and enchantments may be frequent plot devices at the ballet, but the art form itself is under a bewitchment of its own making.
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Many Malawians hold similar beliefs about the possibility of bewitchment, and we had heard numerous disturbing tales involving children and witchcraft from other clients in the clinic.
Chi Mgbako: Aiding Children Accused of Witchcraft Chi Mgbako 2011
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Gillian Anderson's version of the duchess the former Wallis Warfield Simpson, begins as a bewitchment and ends like the strike of a rattlesnake.
Where the Time Goes Nancy deWolf Smith 2011
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Magic spells, poisons, potions and enchantments may be frequent plot devices at the ballet, but the art form itself is under a bewitchment of its own making.
Beaming Balanchine 2009
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What the local people saw as bewitchment he saw as mental stress.
Spellbound Karen Palmer 2010
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What the local people saw as bewitchment he saw as mental stress.
Spellbound Karen Palmer 2010
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Its prevalence is not the result of a recent word transfer or innovation, but reflects the preservation of an ancient verb root of persistent meaning that dates back to the proto-Bantu period of the early third millennium BCE. 56 In other words, the idea of bewitchment has retained its current meaning and linguistic form for at least 5,000 years.
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And yet in Julian Mitchell's exemplary adaptation it glides on to the stage scented with the peculiar tang of Ford's writing: a mixture of regret, bitterness, bewilderment and bewitchment.
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