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fascination

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1600, "act of bewitching," from Latin fascinationem (nominative fascinatio ), noun of action from past participle stem of fascinare "bewitch, enchant" (see fascinate ). Meaning "state of being fascinated" is from 1650s; that of "fascinating quality, attractive ...

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Fascination is a 1931 British drama film directed by Miles Mander and starring Madeleine Carroll , Carl Harbord and Dorothy Bartlam . It was made at Elstree Studios . The film's sets were designed by the art directors Clarence Elder and David Rawnsley . ...

Usage examples of fascination.

Syrinx watched in utter fascination as the two passed within fifty metres of the boat, rocking it alarmingly in their pounding wake.

She gave her full attention to the Araba handsome, dark-skinned man with a full mustache but a hairless chin, which he plucked meticulously every evening, to the wincing fascination of her men.

This time he watched with intense fascination as the areola on each breast darkened and her nipples peaked.

Yet this problem, to your eyes, I fear, not essentially novel or peculiarly involute, holds for my contemplative faculties an extraordinary fascination, to wit: wherein does the mind, in itself a muscle, escape from the laws of the physical, and wherein and wherefore do the laws of the physical exercise so inexorable a jurisdiction over the processes of the mind, so that a disorder of the visual nerve actually distorts the asomatous and veils the pneumatoscopic?

But before they could recover their wits sufficiently to run, the little painted wizard uttered such a string of cries and grunts, imitating horse and eagle and chacma baboon, at the same time prancing and flapping and scratching, that their terror turned to fascination.

He explained them at great length to Cilia, who used every particle of her acting ability in looking rapt with fascination.

For him, cars effervescing like soda water had all the fascination of cracks in the pavement.

Tancred soon discovered that Emich exercised a fascination over the minds of his followers.

But the work came to have a fascination for him, and he saw possibilities in it of pecuniary emolument such as the hardware business did not afford.

There is as much fascination in this fermenting heap of manure as there is in having money in a savings bank.

Beside her, Gordian stared out the heavy windows facing the pad with rapt fascination.

Anthony Berkeley sponsoring her into the Detection Gub in 1933, and introducing her to the fascinations of witchcraft.

Nevertheless, despite my fascination, I foresaw the possibility of repentance, and I shuddered at the thought, but I had a cure for that also.

After Marescalchi had gone, and I was making my preparations for my journey to Barcelona, I saw one day, at the bull fight, a woman whose appearance had a strange kind of fascination about it.

Ty has a fascination with sexual indulgence that no human libertine could even imagine.