Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of mesmerizing, or the state of being mesmerized. Also spelled
mesmerisation .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of mesmerizing; the state of being mesmerized.
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- noun
hypnotism
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Examples
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Familiarity with his country—or any other country—would be helpful at this point, if only to counterweight his mesmerization with the arc of his personal story.
If Only Obama Had Been This Guy Jr. Holman W. Jenkins 2011
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With that win comes a change in narrative from Obama and all the power that the presidency brings and a real shift/jolt from this mesmerization we've been under (some of that's normal for having lived under the same president for almost 8 years).
McCain Camp: We Have Over $94 Million On Hand, With RNC Help 2009
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But authors admit flaw: all 396 were college students -- congenitally loquacious, no jobs, no commutes, no need for aphonic mesmerization by Monday Night Football.
Andrea Learned: Mars and Venus Explode: Men Use As Many Words As Women Do 2008
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I did not bring my computer, because I feared the usual mesmerization.
Easter on State Street. Ann Althouse 2005
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In my mesmerization with Chef Simons, I had completely forgotten about him.
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In my mesmerization with Chef Simons, I had completely forgotten about him.
Archive 2005-07-01 2005
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I rode the train from Sofia to Karlovo and watched in a joyous mesmerization the autumn colors in the Balkan mountains and wondered about the two years ahead of me.
Archive 2004-10-01 Eric Wiley 2004
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I rode the train from Sofia to Karlovo and watched in a joyous mesmerization the autumn colors in the Balkan mountains and wondered about the two years ahead of me.
sworn-in as a PCV + first weekend living in Karlovo Eric Wiley 2004
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In able hands, ultra-musical mesmerization will follow.
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[Page 77] between the translators as to whether this was done with the intention of deceiving the evil spirits into attacking the wrong person (by introducing into her neighbourhood other women surrounded with screens and attendants) or by transmitting the supposed evil spirits out of the Queen into her ladies by a sort of mesmerization.
Diaries of Court Ladies of Old Japan b. 974? Murasaki Shikibu Izumi Shikibu 1920
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