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WITCHERY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does witchery mean?
• WITCHERY (noun)
The noun WITCHERY has 1 sense:
1. the art of sorcery
Familiarity information: WITCHERY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The art of sorcery
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Synonyms:
witchcraft; witchery
Hypernyms ("witchery" is a kind of...):
black art; black magic; necromancy; sorcery (the belief in magical spells that harness occult forces or evil spirits to produce unnatural effects in the world)
Derivation:
witch (cast a spell over someone or something; put a hex on someone or something)
Context examples
I am influenced—conquered; and the influence is sweeter than I can express; and the conquest I undergo has a witchery beyond any triumph I can win.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
She sat without movement, her eyes steadfast upon him, scarcely breathing, caught up and out of herself, he thought, by the witchery of the thing he had created.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
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