besot
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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 Crow, Martha Foote
Oh, he had no right thus to besot himself with adoration!
From Chivalry by Cabell, James Branch
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 Brownell, Gertrude Hall
Nightmares Ride in their wake, the spirits to besot.
From All About Coffee by Ukers, William H. (William Harrison)
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 Wells, Carolyn
The beauty of this show is that Waters and his producers focused on history’s unsung heroes or the lesser-known feats of famous ones with an infectious, besotted revelry that frequently inspired further research.
From Salon ● Jul. 1, 2026
But it is basketball - not football - that New Yorkers are besotted with right now.
From BBC ● Jun. 12, 2026
She transforms herself from “a wild, hatless little savage” into a lady, which estranges her from her childhood companion and besotted admirer, Heathcliff, a foundling who lives with her family.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 10, 2026
The film would attract a "whole new generation of people" who had not yet read the book but were "completely besotted" after seeing the film, he added.
From Barron's ● Feb. 28, 2026
Or he doesn’t really love her: he’s besotted by her.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
That delivers 0-60 mph acceleration pace in the 7s—adequate, though hardly besotting.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 20, 2015
Our scientific assumptions admit just as much of an interpretation and utilisation in favour of a besotting philistinism—yea, in favour of bestiality—as also in favour of "blessedness" and soul-inspiration.
From We Philologists Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche, Volume 8 by Kennedy, J. M. (John McFarland)
No; I have never repented fleeing from the stifling poison-breath of sin that was hot and thick around me, and threatened to steal over my senses like besotting wine.
From Romola by Eliot, George
"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 Wilson, Alexander Johnstone
It is a besotting kind of taste, likely to turn into a disease.
From Daniel Deronda by Eliot, George
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