bewitch
verb (used with object)
to affect by witchcraft or magic; cast a spell over.
bewitchment
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a word derived from
bewitch.
Example Sentences
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It was not bewitchment, or blindness; it was that tender, mournful green.
From New York Times ● Nov. 11, 2021
With her tousled hair and forbidding aloofness, May was a figure of bewitchment, la belle dame sans merci of the sardonic comeback.
From New York Times ● Feb. 2, 2021
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.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 7, 2010
Distrustful, he regards this as "bewitchment" and determines to resist it.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 2, 2010
He gave it as his opinion that the bewitchment of the two girls was genuine.
From A History of Witchcraft in England from 1558 to 1718 by Wallace Notestein
