bewitchingly
advEtymology From bewitching + -ly.
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In a bewitching manner.
- In her aspect, manners, voice, there is something bewitchingly attractive; her countenance, [...]1808, Sarah Harriet Burney, Geraldine Fauconberg, →OCLC, →OL, page 176:
- Of all that the sky presents there is perhaps no one object so bewitchingly beautiful as the evening star at its largest phasis.1844, Warren Burton, The Scenery-shower, with Word-paintings of the Beautiful, …, William D. Ticknor & Co., →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 107:
4 more examples
- 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 [...]1847, Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights, Smith, Elder & Co., page 401:
- I thought her bewitchingly pretty, and wanted to possess her; [...]1875, W.C. Russell, Jilted! Or, my Uncle's Scheme, volume 3, Sampson Low, page 60:
- Julie was beautiful, bewitchingly beautiful—a painter's fancy [...]1877, Spoken in Anger., volume 3, Tinsley Brothers, →OCLC, →OL, page 26:
- Her countenance has been in frequent varied phraseology described as bewitchingly lovely.1893, James Adams, Burns's "Chloris”, Morison Brothers, →LCCN, →OL, page 25: