bewitch
verb (used with object)
to affect by witchcraft or magic; cast a spell over.
bewitchingness
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a word derived from
bewitch.
Example Sentences
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She found herself remembering poetic lines about Grecian Helen, and then recalling herself to New England and the unlikelihood of such bewitchingness.
From Old Crow by Alice Brown
"You don't mean to say, Micah, that there's any person for beauty and bewitchingness to be compared with Mrs. McNab?"
From Adèle Dubois A Story of the Lovely Miramichi Valley in New Brunswick by Mrs. William T. Savage
For him now the mystery of Isabel possessed all the bewitchingness of the mysterious vault of night, whose very darkness evokes the witchery.
From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Herman Melville
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.
From The Roof of France by Matilda Betham-Edwards
