How To Use Bewitchment In A Sentence
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Perhaps the Others or some other being maintain a bewitchment on that place.
THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
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Will had attributed Isabelle's continuing bewitchment of his brother to her uncommon beauty.
HERE BE DRAGONS
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He also remarked on the harmful effects of ‘the almost universal belief amongst the common people in so-called spells and bewitchments’.
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The love that drives him increasingly looks like something baser and less flattering--a kind of bewitchment he seems helpless against, though it comes from within.
Archive 2009-08-16
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Rational Review
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Vapours enchant the distances, bathing peaks in bewitchments of blue and grey of a hundred tones, transforming naked cliffs to amethyst, stretching spectral gauzes across the topazine morning, magnifying the splendour of noon by effacing the horizon, filling the evening with smoke of gold, bronzing the waters, banding the sundown with ghostly purple and green of nacre.
Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan Second Series
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The intense anxiety created by fear of bewitchment in past societies may have further increased the incidence of the nightmare.
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These books are filled with prayers thought to help those suffering from bewitchment.
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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.
Earthquakes in London; The Good Soldier; FIB
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Many Malawians hold similar beliefs about the possibility of bewitchment, and we had heard numerous disturbing tales involving children and witchcraft from other clients in the clinic.
Chi Mgbako: Aiding Children Accused of Witchcraft
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I will, sir, flatter my sworn brother the people, to earn a dearer estimation of them; tis a condition they account gentle: and since the wisdom of their choice is rather to have my hat than my heart, I will practise the insinuating nod, and be off to them most counterfeitly; that is, sir, I will counterfeit the bewitchment of some popular man, and give it bountifully to the desirers.
Act II. Scene III. Coriolanus
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I will, sir, flatter my sworn brother, the people, to earn a dearer estimation of them; 'tis a condition they account gentle: and since the wisdom of their choice is rather to have my hat than my heart, I will practise the insinuating nod and be off to them most counterfeitly; that is, sir, I will counterfeit the bewitchment of some popular man and give it bountiful to the desirers.
Coriolanus
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When the lovely daughter tries to lay the blame for her own transgression on a bewitchment, Nell and her grandmother suffer terrible consequences from the frenzied folly of a superstitious community.
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Magic spells, poisons, potions and enchantments may be frequent plot devices at the ballet, but the art form itself is under a bewitchment of its own making.
Vitro Nasu » 2009 » May
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What the local people saw as bewitchment he saw as mental stress.
Spellbound
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Broadly speaking, the frequency of supposed bewitchments diminished; their scope was restricted to personal, not communal, misfortunes; socially, a narrower range of persons was involved.
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Gillian Anderson's version of the duchess the former Wallis Warfield Simpson, begins as a bewitchment and ends like the strike of a rattlesnake.
Where the Time Goes
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Its prevalence is not the result of a recent word transfer or innovation, but reflects the preservation of an ancient verb root of persistent meaning that dates back to the proto-Bantu period of the early third millennium BCE. 56 In other words, the idea of bewitchment has retained its current meaning and linguistic form for at least 5,000 years.
Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE
