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Princeton's WordNet

  1. bewitching, captivating, enchanting, enthralling, entrancing, fascinatingadjective

    capturing interest as if by a spell

    "bewitching smile"; "Roosevelt was a captivating speaker"; "enchanting music"; "an enthralling book"; "antique papers of entrancing design"; "a fascinating woman"

Wiktionary

  1. bewitchingnoun

    The act by which somebody is bewitched; a curse or enchantment.

  2. bewitchingadjective

    Enchanting.

  3. Etymology: See bewitch

Wikipedia

  1. bewitching

    An incantation, a spell, a charm, an enchantment or a bewitchery, is a magical formula intended to trigger a magical effect on a person or objects. The formula can be spoken, sung or chanted. An incantation can also be performed during ceremonial rituals or prayers. In the world of magic, wizards, witches, and fairies allegedly perform incantations.In medieval literature, folklore, fairy tales, and modern fantasy fiction, enchantments are charms or spells. This has led to the terms "enchanter" and "enchantress" for those who use enchantments. The English language borrowed the term "incantation" from Old French in the late 14th century; the corresponding Old English term was gealdor or galdor, "song, spell", cognate to ON galdr. The weakened sense "delight" (compare the same development of "charm") is modern, first attested in 1593 (OED). Words of incantation are often spoken with inflection and emphasis on the words being said. The tone and rhyme of how the words are spoken and the placement of words used in the formula may differ depending on the desired outcome of the magical effect.Surviving written records of historical magic spells were largely obliterated in many cultures by the success of the major monotheistic religions (Islam, Judaism, and Christianity), which label some magical activity as immoral or associated with evil.

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  1. bewitching

    Bewitching refers to captivating or enchanting someone, often in a charming or attractive manner. It's often used to describe someone or something that is so appealing or attractive that it appears to have a kind of magical power over others.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Bewitching

    of Bewitch

  2. Bewitchingadjective

    having power to bewitch or fascinate; enchanting; captivating; charming

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of bewitching in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of bewitching in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of bewitching in a Sentence

  1. Woodrow Wilson:

    The way you let your hand rest in mine, my bewitching Sweetheart, fills me with happiness. It is the perfection of confiding love. Everything you do, the little unconscious things in particular, charms me and increases my sense of nearness to you, identification with you, till my heart is full to overflowing.

  2. Henry Ward Beecher:

    Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.

  3. Homer:

    The wine urges me on, the bewitching wine, which sets even a wise man to singing and to laughing gently and rouses him up to dance and brings forth words which were better unspoken.

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