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Definition of Bedevilling
1. bedevil [v] - See also: bedevil
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bedevilling
Literary usage of Bedevilling
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion by James George Frazer (1900)
"He could not enter any house, or come into contact with any person or thing,
without utterly bedevilling them. He might not even touch food with his hands, ..."
2. The Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell: With Illustrations by James Russell Lowell (1891)
"... the other world in bliss, Too busy with bedevilling this ! Reset by doubts of
every breed In the last bastion of my creed, With shot and shell for ..."
3. The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray by William Makepeace Thackeray, Sir Leslie Stephen (1899)
"... was bedevilling me with her all too tempting ogling and singing, I did not
see at the time, but now I know, that her artful mother was egging that ..."
4. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1835)
"Lopping and levelling,—no longer drivelling, All things bedevilling,—these are
our views : We may in the ..."
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