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Beguilement

noun
1.
Magnetic personal charm.  Synonyms: animal magnetism, bewitchery.
2.
An entertainment that provokes pleased interest and distracts you from worries and vexations.  Synonym: distraction.





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"Beguilement" Quotes from Famous Books



... truth of the matter," she said, sitting down. "The truth is, that I have less than half a mile." Self-beguilement with what she had known all the time to be false had given her strength to come over half a mile that she would have been powerless to face in the lump. The artifice showed that the woman, by some mysterious intuition, had grasped the paradoxical truth that blindness may operate more vigorously ...
— Far from the Madding Crowd • Thomas Hardy


Words linked to "Beguilement" :   amusement, entertainment, beguile, attractiveness


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