bewitchery

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The poetry seems to perform hypnosis, the found rhymes and assonance and anaphora enacting an enchantment, a bewitchery; it seems to be giving subconscious advice.

From New York Times • Apr. 15, 2022

Under its lordly bewitchery, Erastianism prevails in the Established Churches of the kingdom.

From The Covenants And The Covenanters Covenants, Sermons, and Documents of the Covenanted Reformation by Kerr, James

There is a certain bewitchery or fascination in words.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Webster, Noah

The pursuit has always interested my imagination more than any other, and I remember before having my first portrait taken, there was a great bewitchery in the idea, as if it were a magic process.

From Passages from the American Notebooks, Volume 2. by Hawthorne, Nathaniel