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BEWITCHING
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Capturing interest as if by a spell
Example:
a fascinating woman
Synonyms:
bewitching; captivating; enchanting; enthralling; entrancing; fascinating
Classified under:
Similar:
attractive (pleasing to the eye or mind especially through beauty or charm)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb bewitch
Context examples:
Artistic Neptune is in your sign, Pisces, and will add a bewitching note to any event you attend mid-month.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
And after all, Marianne, after all that is bewitching in the idea of a single and constant attachment, and all that can be said of one's happiness depending entirely on any particular person, it is not meant—it is not fit—it is not possible that it should be so.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
'I did not make the allowances,' said she, 'which I ought to have done, for his temper and spirits—his delightful spirits, and that gaiety, that playfulness of disposition, which, under any other circumstances, would, I am sure, have been as constantly bewitching to me, as they were at first.'
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
There was so much of friendliness, and of flattery, and of everything most bewitching in his reception there; the old were so hospitable, the young so agreeable, that he could not but resolve to remain where he was, and take all the charms and perfections of Edward's wife upon credit a little longer.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
She had a few tender reveries now and then, which he could sometimes take advantage of to look in her face without detection; and the result of these looks was, that though as bewitching as ever, her face was less blooming than it ought to be.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
There was so much attachment to Captain Wentworth in all this, and such a bewitching charm in a degree of hospitality so uncommon, so unlike the usual style of give-and-take invitations, and dinners of formality and display, that Anne felt her spirits not likely to be benefited by an increasing acquaintance among his brother-officers.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
