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PRONUNCIATION OF BEDEVILMENT

bedevilment  [bɪˈdɛvəlmənt] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF BEDEVILMENT

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Bedevilment is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES BEDEVILMENT MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of bedevilment in the English dictionary

The definition of bedevilment in the dictionary is state of being beset by a problem. Other definition of bedevilment is possession by a devil.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH BEDEVILMENT


accouplement
əˈkʌpəlmənt
bafflement
ˈbæfəlmənt
bevelment
ˈbevəlmənt
devilment
ˈdɛvəlmənt
disablement
dɪˈseɪb əlmənt
disembowelment
ˌdɪsɪmˈbaʊəlmənt
disentanglement
ˌdɪsɪnˈtæŋɡ əlmənt
dismantlement
dɪsˈmæntəlmənt
embezzlement
ɪmˈbɛz əlmənt
embrittlement
ɪmˈbrɪtəlmənt
enablement
ɪnˈeɪb əlmənt
entanglement
ɪnˈtæŋɡəlmənt
entitlement
ɪnˈtaɪt əlmənt
ravelment
ˈrævəlmənt
redoublement
ˌriːˈdʌbəlmənt
resettlement
riːˈsɛtəlmənt
revelment
ˈrevəlmənt
settlement
ˈsɛtəlmənt
tremblement
ˈtrɛmbəlmənt
unravelment
ʌnˈrævəlmənt

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE BEDEVILMENT

bedeafen
bedeck
bedecked
bedeguar
bedel
bedell
bedellship
bedelship
bedesman
bedesmen
bedevil
bedevilled
bedevilling
bedew
bedfast
bedfellow
Bedford
Bedford cord
Bedfordshire
bedframe

WORDS THAT END LIKE BEDEVILMENT

advertisement
ailment
annulment
bailment
befoulment
concealment
curtailment
derailment
embroilment
empanelment
enrollment
enrolment
entailment
enthrallment
fulfilment
installment
instalment
nonfulfilment
recallment
self-fulfilment
wish fulfilment

Synonyms and antonyms of bedevilment in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «bedevilment» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF BEDEVILMENT

Find out the translation of bedevilment to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of bedevilment from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «bedevilment» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

bedevilment
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

bedevilment
570 millions of speakers

English

bedevilment
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

bedevilment
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الإفساد
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

bedevilment
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

bedevilment
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

bedevilment
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

bedevilment
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Pembedahan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

bedevilment
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

bedevilment
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

bedevilment
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Bedevilment
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

bedevilment
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

bedevilment
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

बेजबाबदारपणा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

bedevilment
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

confusionali
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

bedevilment
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

bedevilment
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

bedevilment
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ζάλισμα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

bezet
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

bedevilment
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

bedevilment
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of bedevilment

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «BEDEVILMENT»

The term «bedevilment» is used very little and occupies the 162.627 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «BEDEVILMENT» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about bedevilment

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BEDEVILMENT»

Discover the use of bedevilment in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to bedevilment and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Taoism Reader
The obstacle of bedevilment may arise in the mind, may attach to objects, may operate through other people, or may pertain to the body. Bedevilments arising in the mind are ideas of self and others, ideas of glory and ignominy, ideas of gain ...
edited and translated by Thomas Cleary
2
The Pocket Zen Reader
is bedevilment? Bedevilment means error. If you conceive intent to grasp the external, this is error. If you conceive intent to grasp the internal, this is error. If the mind is not aroused, then it is not agitated; if the mind is not agitated, this is correct.
‎2008
3
Dancing with the Devil: Society and Cultural Poetics in ...
Chapter Nine Culture and Bedevilment It seems so long ago, but I clearly recall a time in my childhood — I was nine — when I accompanied a playmate and his family to the pilgrimage site of Don Pedrito Jaramillo just south of Corpus Christi.
José Eduardo Limón, 1994
4
Zen Reader
bedevIlmenT What is bedevilment? Bedevilment means error. If you conceive intent to grasp the external, this is error. If you conceive intent to grasp the internal, this is error. If the mind is not aroused, then it is not agitated; if the mind is not ...
ed. Thomas Cleary
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The Mark of Cain: Psychoanalytic Insight and the Psychopath
®bedevilment ̄. in the concrete sense of the word. He has been depicted as deficient in protoplasm, overly or inadequately nurtured in early years, and, in recent decades, has been described as suffering suggested that heisaperson ...
J. Reid Meloy, 2013
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The Crisis
"Angel. Street". &. The. Bedevilment. of. Blacks. On. The. Tube. PART OF NAACP HISTORY ibUi put my name* on the. The. Arts. iliiii. iiiiiiiiiij. i. iifffwitiniiriTTrr. By Jannette L. Dates and Camille O. Cosby The short-lived series, "Angel Street," ...
7
The Bar Sinister: A Tale
It is no better than the last; this isa table of bedevilment!” “ On the contrary, monsieur will not find in the salons of Paris so good a table.” “ I say the table is crooked.” “Monsieur talks at random: the flatness of this table is a flatness of excess, the ...
Charles Allston Collins, 1864
8
North and South: Or, Scenes and Adventures in Mexico
Adventure ! adventure do you say ? — bedevilment rather — bedevilment and witchcraft say I — I know he cares nothing about the girls — I know it, for I have seen it — and Rodriguez, and all our folks say, that Jaquita is a witch, and a gipsy !
Charles Sealsfield, 1844
9
E-commerce and Cultural Values
Chapter IV Implementing IT Policy and the Bedevilment of Post Colonialism-A Case Study of Tanzania Joseph Kabalimu Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand Brian Corbitt Deakin University, Australia TheerasakThanasankit Monash ...
Theerasak Thanasankit, 2003
10
Spaces of the Sacred and Profane: Dickens, Trollope, and the ...
[H]e set forth on a stroll about the streets with a vague and not unpleasant idea that they teemed with all kinds of mystery and bedevilment” (MC 63). While, of course, the real bedevilment in Tom Pinch's life is at home with Pecksniff, Dickens ...
Elizabeth A. Bridgham, 2012

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «BEDEVILMENT»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term bedevilment is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Shelter, The (2015)
But we soon see he's surrounded by a supernatural force-field… is it one of benevolence or bedevilment? As the religious iconography swirls ... «Dread Central, Jul 15»
2
Film Review: 'Insidious: Chapter 3′
After devoting two films to the bedevilment of the Lambert family — specifically, a spooky old hag that had attached itself to patriarch Josh ... «Yahoo Movies UK, Jun 15»
3
Smith's life of crime pays off big time
It's clear from her Eastbourne adventure Smith has a real sense of bedevilment and fun. Like her character, she's also in denial about the ... «Herald Scotland, Apr 15»
4
More questions than answers
"We will not add to that bedevilment. We do not have an answer, but we have lots of questions," he said. What followed was fascinating, ... «Holyrood.com, Mar 15»
5
Another Tack: Gee, Officer Obama!
... a crime-fighting concern, bedevilment by individual wrongdoers. It is not, Obama claims, a global war with distinct ideological battle lines. «Jerusalem Post Israel News, Mar 15»
6
REVIEW: 'Dunsinane' at Chicago Shakespeare Theater
... bogged down in bewitching, 11th-century, not-so-bonny Scotland, a place of bedevilment, mysticism, feminized sexuality and danger. «Chicago Tribune, Mar 15»
7
Track Of The Day 2/3 - Bill Wells x Aidan Moffat
... arrives on March 16th, finding the pair shifting their pre-occupations to notions of the city as a femme fatale, as the source of inspiration and bedevilment. «Clash Magazine, Mar 15»
8
Sundance Review: The Witch
... whose need for fresh baby's blood initiates a season of bedevilment that drives the family to grief, near-starvation, and all manner of strife. «Salt Lake Magazine, Jan 15»
9
League Cup remains Liverpool's best hope of silverware in a difficult …
Who better than Rodgers to know that, once you've scraped away the surface outrage and bedevilment, you're left with someone exceptionally ... «ESPN FC, Jan 15»
10
David Harsent wins TS Eliot prize for poetry for Fire Songs
... of apocalypse brought about through war or environmental catastrophe or the boundless human capacity for self‑deception and bedevilment” ... «The Guardian, Jan 15»

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« EDUCALINGO. Bedevilment [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/bedevilment>. Apr 2024 ».
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