All 3 Uses of
beguile
in
Adam Bede
- After all, I believe the wisest of us must be beguiled in this way sometimes, and must think both better and worse of people than they deserve.†
Chpt 15 *beguiled = deceived through charm or enchantment
- Adam pictured to himself Mrs. Poyser examining it with her keen eye and trying in vain to find out a deficiency; and, of course, close to Mrs. Poyser stood Hetty, and Adam was again beguiled from calculations and contrivances into dreams and hopes.†
Chpt 19
- And it was quite true that if Hetty had been plain, she would have looked very ugly and unamiable at that moment, and no one's moral judgment upon her would have been in the least beguiled.†
Chpt 23
Definition:
to charm, enchant, or entertain someone; or to deceive -- especially through charm