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
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
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
There is such a thing as a divine besottedness.
From Toilers of the Sea by Victor Hugo
