besotted
adjective
infatuated or obsessed.
besottedness
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a word derived from
besotted.
Example Sentences
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Thankfully, most of the other celebrations of besottedness here require no such cringing.
From Slate ● Aug. 23, 2019
Given such besottedness, does the writing even matter?
From New York Times ● May 18, 2018
Italians, lovers of freedom and unrestraint, were the first to fill the world with tales about the moral besottedness of Luther!
From Luther Examined and Reexamined A Review of Catholic Criticism and a Plea for Revaluation by W. H. T. (William Herman Theodore) Dau
Something should be done for them, too—for that baby, dragging its rag-doll in the cigar-box, poor little soul, abandoned to a life of besottedness, ignorance and evil!
From The Valiants of Virginia by Hallie Erminie Rives
I felt, as I say, impatient with Jaffery, although—or was it because?—I recognised the bald fact that he was in love with Doria to the maximum degree of besottedness.
From Jaffery by William John Locke
