[f. BEGUILE v. + -MENT.] The action or process of beguiling; also, its agencies and resulting condition or state.
1805. Foster, Ess., I. ii. 24. The same beguilement in favour of ourselves.
1842. Mrs. Browning, Grk. Chr. Poets (1863), 69. From my heart in its beguilement.
1862. Thornbury, Turner, I. 339. The aërial witchery and beguilement of such an hour.
1881. J. Hawthorne, Fort. Fool, I. iii. Simplicity is popularly supposed to lend itself readily to beguilement.
