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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

Such was the general state of besottedness that many of the faithful blissfully accepted the new prediction.

From The Infant's Skull Or The End of the World. A Tale of the Millennium by Sue, Eugène

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 Dau, W. H. T. (William Herman Theodore)

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 Locke, William John