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
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
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
Oh, he had no right thus to besot himself with adoration!
From Chivalry by Cabell, James Branch
Wannabeher, meanwhile, is a sticky, sleazy track about being so completely besotted with someone that you start to blur the boundaries between where your personality ends and theirs begins.
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026
This old-school value manager is finding plenty of unloved bargains in a market besotted with AI.
From Barron's ● Jun. 17, 2026
The dread comes from fears of a reinterpretation of John Galsworthy’s Nobel Prize-winning books, collectively known as “The Forsyte Saga,” to suit an audience besotted with “Bridgerton” and other sensual period adaptations.
From Salon ● Mar. 28, 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
The police were already wondering if the painting had been stolen by a besotted visitor.
From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day
That delivers 0-60 mph acceleration pace in the 7s—adequate, though hardly besotting.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 20, 2015
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
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 Lang, Andrew
"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
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 Cooper, James Fenimore
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