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bewitchingly

adv

Etymology

From bewitching + -ly.

  1. inherited from bewicchen
  2. formed as bewitching — “bewitch + -ing”
  3. suffixed as bewitchingly — “bewitching + -ly”

Definitions

  1. In a bewitching manner.

    • In her aspect, manners, voice, there is something bewitchingly attractive; her countenance, [...]
    • Of all that the sky presents there is perhaps no one object so bewitchingly beautiful as the evening star at its largest phasis.
    • And here was a man, decidedly good-looking—Jane and Susan Green call him bewitchingly handsome—I suppose they're two of the ladies he pretends would [...]

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