different between enticement vs beguilement

English

Etymology

From Old French enticement.

Noun

enticement (countable and uncountable, plural enticements)

1. The act or practice of enticing, of alluring or tempting
2. That which entices, or incites to evil; means of allurement; an alluring object

Translations

References

• enticement in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• enticement in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• encitement

Old French

Etymology

enticier +? -ment.

Noun

enticement m (oblique plural enticemenz or enticementz, nominative singular enticemenz or enticementz, nominative plural enticement)

1. incitement (act, instance of inciting)

Descendants

• ? English: enticement

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (enticement)
• enticement on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub

English

Etymology

beguile +? -ment

Noun

beguilement (plural beguilements)

1. The action or process of beguiling; the characteristic of being beguiling.
   • 1924, Mark Twain, Mark Twain's Autobiography, First Edition, Volume 2, entry dated Tuesday, April 10, 1906, ^[1]

     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.

   • 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty, Bloomsbury, 2005, Chapter 8,

     But a line wasn't feasibly resisted. He loved the etiquette of the thing, the chopping with a credit card, the passing of the tightly rolled note, the procedure courteous and dry, “all done with money,” as Wani said—it was part of the larger beguilement, and once it had begun it squeezed him with its charm and promise.