Meanings
nouneffascination (countable and uncountable, plural effascinations)
plural effascinations
- countableobsoleteuncountableA charm; bewitchment or delusion.
But what will not madneſs and effaſcination make a man phanſie to uphold his own Prejudices?
1660, H[enry] More, An Explanation of the Grand Mystery of Godliness; […], London: […] J[ames] Flesher, for W[illiam] Morden […], →OCLC, book I, page 3541 more example
If in myne eies there be effaſcination, / How comes it there is no ſuch alteration / In others I behold?
1637, Tho[mas] Heywood, “Procvs & Pvella”, in Pleasant Dialogues and Dramma’s, Selected out of Lucian, Erasmus, Textor, Ovid, &c. […], London: […] R. O[ulton] for R. H[earne], and are to be sold by Thomas Slater […], →OCLC, page 23
Origin
- Latineffascinatio
- Englisheffascination
Latin effascinatio.
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