Crossword clues for beguilement
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Beguilement \Be*guile"ment\, n. The act of beguiling, or the state of being beguiled.
Wiktionary
n. The characteristic of being beguiled.
WordNet
n. magnetic personal charm [syn: bewitchery, animal magnetism]
an entertainment that provokes pleased interest and distracts you from worries and vexations [syn: distraction]
Wikipedia
The Sharing Knife: Beguilement is a fantasy novel by Lois McMaster Bujold, published in 2006. It is the first book in the The Sharing Knife series.
Usage examples of "beguilement".
Game, stood the King and the Princes and the other charismatics to whose beguilement the armies rallied.
Oh, Gamelords, I thought, they are using beguilement on one another, and neither sees what is there.
Without the Talent of Beguilement, few if any of their Rulers would be able to lead men into battle.
Among them was the eidolon of Trandilar, great Queen, Goddess of beguilement and passion.
I reached out to Trandilar, begged her for a blandishment, a beguilement to charm birds, small beasts, whatever might be within sight or smell of me.
Overall was a Beguilement which denied the eyes and told the watcher that she was desirable, wonderful, marvelous.
They tend to come into their Talent early, and this early accession to beguilement gives them too easy success in their formative years.
I whom fate selecteth for the shaving of Shagpat, and till now it was a beguilement, all emptiness.
I will endure being simpering little Charina a bit longer, and continue casting my beguilements and love-spells on the boy.
I whom fate selecteth for the shaving of Shagpat, and till now it was a beguilement, all emptiness.
It could easily be shown that to use personal attractiveness recklessly to the extent of hopeless beguilement is cruel, and it may be admitted that woman ought to be held to strict responsibility for her attractiveness.
Beguilement is another — which you saw at work between myself and Arvos, binding his mind to mine so that we could talk to each other over great distances — and then there is the art of the necromancer.
His purpose was to avoid the beguilements of the phenomenal and unabiding world, so that the soul might be free to attain knowledge of the only certitude and truth: God was the sole reality.
There was Trandilar, great Queen, mistress of Beguilement, cosseting Peter in a tone that turned me red and eager, not with envy but with some hot feeling it was not easy to put down.
Myself,' (he paused to sniff the cave's air again), 'I think it likely that the cone's master has worked some beguilement here: he has gloomed on this place and left the smell of death here.