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






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Beguilement" Quotes from Famous Books



... easily, even if shyly, have named. One of these was Godey's Lady's Book, a sallow pile of which (it shows to me for sallow in the warmer and less stony light of the Wall Street of those days and through the smell of ancient anodynes) lay on Joey Bagstock's table for our beguilement while we waited: I was to encounter in Phiz's Dombey and Son that design for our tormentor's type. There is no doubt whatever that I succumbed to the spell of Godey, who, unlike the present essences, was an anodyne before the fact as well as after; since I remember poring, in his pages, over ...
— A Small Boy and Others • Henry James



Words linked to "Beguilement" :   attractiveness, distraction, animal magnetism, bewitchery



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