[See -MENT.]
1. The fact or power of bewitching; ‘fascination, power of charming.’ J.
1607. Shaks., Cor., II. iii. 108. I will counterfet the bewitchment of some popular man.
1830. Mackintosh, Eth. Philos., Wks. 1846, I. 135. The seductions of paradox … the intoxication of fame … the bewitchment of prohibited opinions.
1876. Miss Braddon, J. Haggard’s Dau., III. 10. When weighed against the bewitchment of fair looks and winning ways.
2. The fact or state of being bewitched.
1810. Coleridge, Friend (ed. 3), I. 40. The evil day of his sensual bewitchment.
