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Beguilement   Listen
noun
Beguilement  n.  The act of beguiling, or the state of being beguiled.





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"Beguilement" Quotes from Famous Books



... that moment—the allurement of a woman's loveliness, bitterly as she disdained a woman's charms. It might have told him, more plainly than words, how best he could reward her for the shot that had saved him; yet, though a man on whom such beguilement usually worked only too easily and too often, it did not now touch him. He was grateful to her, but, despite himself, he was cold to her; despite himself, the life which that little hand that he ...
— Under Two Flags • Ouida [Louise de la Ramee]
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... Nevertheless it was distinctly lyric and secular and was therefore as near the spirit of the popular music of the time as any new attempt could well approach. It had, too, in embryonic form all that apparatus for the enchantment of the sense and the beguilement of the intellect which in the following century was the chief attraction of a lyric drama, partly opera, partly spectacle and ...
— Some Forerunners of Italian Opera • William James Henderson
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... similar feminine beguilement; the faculty for which seems to be rather increased by ...
— Continental Monthly, Volume 5, Issue 4 • Various
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Words linked to "Beguilement" :   distraction, entertainment, amusement, beguile


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