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Definition of Bedevilments
1. bedevilment [n] - See also: bedevilment
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bedevilments
Literary usage of Bedevilments
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Atlantic Monthly by Making of America Project (1865)
"On the contrary, he said, " The boy will need it all as an offset to the bedevilments
that will overtake him in our profession. ..."
2. The Popular Science Monthly by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1886)
"... and the political bedevilments made at the South confusion worse confounded
until 1876, the vanee he has made in education and in the acquisition of ..."
3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1866)
"These family bedevilments should be kept from one's friends ; but the murder is
out now, and yon can see how I stand—and see, besides, that if I am not ..."
4. The Writings of Charles Dickens by Charles Dickens, Gilbert Ashville Pierce (1894)
"... by angels of charity and by local committees, to Manchester and Liverpool,
and to all sorts of bedevilments (if I may be allowed, the expression) in the ..."
5. English Lands, Letters and Kings by Donald Grant Mitchell (1889)
"How drolly it sounds—to hear this fine fellow, broken up with drink and all
bedevilments, making his envious lunge at the great master who has perhaps ..."
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