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bedevilment|bɪˈdɛv(ə)lmənt|
[f. as prec. + -ment.]
1. Possession by an evil spirit.
1861A. H. Clington Fr. O'Donnel 25 Whatever bedevilment seized me, I let some of it [opium] spill into his punch. 1878P. Robinson My Ind. Gard. 18 Are not these unequivocal signs of bedevilment?
2. Maddening or bewildering trouble.
1844Dickens Lett. (1880) I. 132 The greater chance of no such bedevilment happening to me. 1882Rossetti in Hall Caine Recoll. 273 Bedevilments thicken: the Garden is ploughed up.
3. Maddening confusion or disorder.
1843Blackw. Mag. LIII. 361 The confusion and bedevilment was ten times worse. 1852Dickens Bleak Ho. viii. (D.) The lawyers have twisted it into such a state of bedevilment. 1861Sala Tw. round Clock 87 What a chaos of cash debtor, contra creditor..brokerage, agio, tare and tret, dock warrants, and general commercial be-devilment! |