Synonyms for bewitching


Grammar : Adj
Spell : bih-wich-ing
Phonetic Transcription : bɪˈwɪtʃ ɪŋ

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Définition of bewitching

Origin :
  • c.1200, biwicchen, from be- + Old English wiccian "to enchant, to practice witchcraft" (see witch). Literal at first, figurative sense of "to fascinate" is from 1520s. *Bewiccian may well have existed in Old English, but it is not attested. Related: Bewitched; bewitching; bewitchingly.
  • adj attractive
Example sentences :
  • The Countess bestowed on me one of her most bewitching smiles.
  • Extract from : « City of Endless Night » by Milo Hastings
  • I dared not go near her lest they should think I was bewitching her.
  • Extract from : « Things as They Are » by Amy Wilson-Carmichael
  • And Miss Van Harlem, in a bewitching wrapper, sat on the lounge and admired.
  • Extract from : « Stories of a Western Town » by Octave Thanet
  • Then she favored me with another nod and a most bewitching smile.
  • Extract from : « Kent Knowles: Quahaug » by Joseph C. Lincoln
  • The most exacting and bewitching of all professions was clamouring for him again.
  • Extract from : « The Destroyer » by Burton Egbert Stevenson
  • "But I really don't think this," said she, with a bewitching smile.
  • Extract from : « A Day's Ride » by Charles James Lever
  • Her pretty dissembling is sure proof, but all concur in its bewitching seeming.
  • Extract from : « Oswald Langdon » by Carson Jay Lee
  • "Thank you, dear uncle," she said, with one of her bewitching flashes of smile.
  • Extract from : « David Elginbrod » by George MacDonald
  • They were all light-hearted and gay, so that the music began at once, as wild and as bewitching as ever.
  • Extract from : « The Gypsies » by Charles G. Leland
  • For him the dazzling sights of Utrecht and Paris had no bewitching charm.
  • Extract from : « History of the Moravian Church » by J. E. Hutton

Antonyms for bewitching

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