spellbinder
a person or thing that spellbinds, especially a powerful speaker who can captivate an audience.
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How to use spellbinder in a sentence
Like the spellbinder, the oracle frequently builds on the look-on-this-picture-and-then-on-that plan.
Twenty Years a Detective in the Wickedest City in the World | Clifton R. WooldridgeIt is all very well for the "spellbinder" to claim all the precincts—the official count is just ahead.
The Art of Public Speaking | Dale Carnagey (AKA Dale Carnegie) and J. Berg EsenweinOn the stump he does not address the imagination as does the Hibernian spellbinder.
The Old World in the New | Edward Alsworth RossBut he had fallen under the hypnotism of some too eloquent spellbinder.
The Cup of Fury | Rupert HughesThe new spellbinder was anxious to speak whenever there was an occasion, and often when there was none at all.
The Candidate | Joseph Alexander Altsheler
British Dictionary definitions for spellbinder
/ (ˈspɛlˌbaɪndə) /
a person capable of holding others spellbound, esp a political speaker
a novel, play, etc, that holds one enthralled
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