[f. as prec. + -ING1.] The action of the vb. BEGUILE: deluding, delusion, deception; beguilement.
c. 1400. Test. Love, II. (1560), 283/2. The false disceivable conjectments of mans beguilings.
1490. Caxton, Eneydos, xv. 54. The perfytte begylynge that Juno had founde soo soone.
1594. Carew, Huarte’s Exam. Wits, ix. (1596), 125. Beguilings (saith Plato) neuer befall in things vnlike and very different.
1625. Modell of Wit, 68. To preserue you from any such beguiling.
