beguilement

Noun

beguilement (plural beguilements)

1. The action or process of beguiling; the characteristic of being beguiling.
   • These wintry nights, if she turned from the fire and the beguilement of Jim's songs, to shudderingly look outside at the frosty moonlit world, Andrew's prediction that their waiting pints of water would be all ice in the morning was often a little consolation.1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 183
   • Little by little Bacon got to beguiling out of Hill things to do, and presently Hill was furnishing him the things to do without any beguilement.1924, Mark Twain, Mark Twain's Autobiography, First Edition, Volume 2, entry dated Tuesday, April 10, 1906