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bedevilment
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun bedevilment has 1 sense
- bedevilment(n = noun.act) badgering, torment, worrying - the act of harassing someone; Array is a kind of harassment, molestation
Derived form verb bedevil1
CIDE DICTIONARY
bedevilment, n.
The state of being bedeviled; bewildering confusion; vexatious trouble. [1913 Webster]
ROGET THESAURUS
bedevilment
Sorcery
N sorcery, occult art, occult sciences, magic, the black art, necromancy, theurgy, thaumaturgy, demonology, demonomy, demonship, diablerie, bedevilment, witchcraft, witchery, glamor, fetishism, fetichism, feticism, ghost dance, hoodoo, obi, obiism, voodoo, voodooism, Shamanism (Esquimaux), vampirism, conjuration, bewitchery, exorcism, enchantment, mysticism, second sight, mesmerism, animal magnetism, od force, odylic force, electrobiology, clairvoyance, spiritualism, spirit rapping, table turning, divination, sortilege, ordeal, sortes Virgilianae, hocus-pocus, magic, magical, mystic, weird, cabalistic, talismanic, phylacteric, incantatory, charmed, Circean, odylic, voodoo.
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