beglamour
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To bedazzle; to deceive as if by magic.
Example Sentences
- "In her former blindness she had known him as shiftless Johnny Taylor, tall and lean. That was before the golden dust of pollen had beglamored his rags and her eyes."
- "Lights glitter on wet planks, on the functional bodies of the day's catch, and floodlights beglamour the colored dresses and the pastel beach costumes of the crowds that stroll there."
- "“Do,” cried Robin; “sir, she’s an auld withered hag, would spean a foal. Surely she did na sae beglamour your senses as to appear like a winsome young lass?”"
- "It is not necessary to follow the wild goose chase which the Rev. George’s imagination ran from this starting-point to the moment when he was suddenly awakened, by an unmistakable symptom, to the fact that he was being outwitted and beglamoured, like the utter novice he was, by a power which he believed to be the devil."
- "Imagination entered her second-hand from Nick, who himself had it third-hand, because Romance meanders from peddler to peddler, holding itself out for what it is not and defrauding the be-glamoured and credulous world."
- "1972, Martha Rofheart, Cry ‘God for Harry’ (published in the U.S. as Fortune Made His Sword), London: Book Club Associates, 1972, Book 2, Chapter 7, p. 156, It was easy to see how he had beglamored the youth of a nation."
Etymology
From be- + glamour.
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: be