besot
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It will steal in upon you, grow upon you, beset and besot you, till you like no other place in the world so well.”
From Aurora the Magnificent by Gertrude Hall Brownell
Oh, he had no right thus to besot himself with adoration!
From Chivalry by James Branch Cabell
Ah cruel fates, why do you then besot Poor Corin's soul with love, when love is fled?
From Elizabethan Sonnet Cycles: Idea, Fidesa and Chloris by Martha Foote Crow
And don't you forget You will ne'er be forgot, You never should fret As at times you have frot, I would chase all the cares that beset, if they ever besot.
From The Book of Humorous Verse by Carolyn Wells
Nightmares Ride in their wake, the spirits to besot.
From All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers
This old-school value manager is finding plenty of unloved bargains in a market besotted with AI.
From Barron's ● Jun. 17, 2026
But it is basketball - not football - that New Yorkers are besotted with right now.
From BBC ● Jun. 12, 2026
Which would concern her much more if she weren’t besotted by the newest member of the faculty.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 5, 2026
I was immediately besotted by the band’s hookiness, the way their songs felt both precise and slightly feral.
From Salon ● Dec. 30, 2025
Caesar is beside himself, the Capitol audience is hysterical, shots of crowds around Panem show a country besotted with happiness.
From "Catching Fire" by Suzanne Collins
That delivers 0-60 mph acceleration pace in the 7s—adequate, though hardly besotting.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 20, 2015
How to get over, how to escape from, the besotting particularity of fiction.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 25 (of 25) by Andrew Lang
To accomplish these selfish projects, they applied every engine toward besotting the multitude with superstition and enthusiasm.
From Mysticism and its Results Being an Inquiry into the Uses and Abuses of Secrecy by John Delafield
Losses and contumely, that had been incurred by the besotting prejudices of European commanders were beginning to be forgotten in the pride of success.
From The Red Rover by James Fenimore Cooper
"Will you stand here besotting yourself, and allow your child to be flung into a pauper's grave?"
From The Life of Thomas Wanless, Peasant by Alexander Johnstone Wilson
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