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besvärjelse — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • incantation noun A spoken or chanted formula of words believed to have magical power.
  • spell noun Words believed to have magical power, or the magical effect they produce.

Senses

besvärjelse is used for these senses in English:

  • spell A magical effect or influence induced by an incantation or formula. [from 16th c.]

incantation — full definition

  1. noun A spoken or chanted formula of words believed to have magical power.
  2. noun Any set of words repeated as if it has special or ritual force.

spell — full definition

  1. noun Words believed to have magical power, or the magical effect they produce.
  2. verb To write or say the letters that make up a word, in the correct order.
  3. verb To indicate or signal that something is likely to happen.
  4. noun A short period of time doing a particular activity, or a stretch of a certain kind of weather.

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