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witchery

[wich-uh-ree] / ˈwɪtʃ ə ri /






NOUN
enchantment
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NOUN
sortilege
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Her portraits re-envision witchery by celebrating the spectrum of identities and spiritual practices found in today’s witch community.”

From Washington Times Oct. 6, 2021

With so many important battles to be fought, does white magic still have a place in the world and is it even comparable to the witchery popery of 400 years ago?

From The Guardian Feb. 16, 2019

“If you want to call it witchery, feel free,” she said.

From New York Times Sep. 26, 2018

I’ll take the cacao-goji bars, and the coconut oil, and whatever other witchery he performs to keep his NFL-battered 40-year-old body going.

From Washington Post Jan. 18, 2018

"If we brought this off, it would be the greatest triumph in the whole history of witchery!"

From "The Witches" by Roald Dahl

There in living truth were Sansfoy, and Sansloy, and Sansjoy; there were Orgoglio and Grantorto, the witcheries of Acrasia and Phædria, the insolence of Briana and Crudor.

From Spenser by R. W. (Richard William) Church

Prouder hearts than mine have listened to the witcheries of thy satin-smooth tongue until they forgot their pride.

From Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII No. 6 June 1848 by Robert Taylor Conrad

Ah, God be merciful to him who sees Thro' ermined pomp and pageantry of kings, Thro' regal mien and beauty's witcheries The poor, weak, shrivelled soul that crouches hid Within the body's hold!

From The Path of Dreams Poems by Leigh Gordon Giltner

Kitty Brett had boldly set his words at defiance, and the priest had boldly entered the house he had been forbidden, and baptized and anointed, and practiced what other witcheries he had no business.

From Hubert's Wife A Story for You by Minnie Mary Lee

Then he got her to tell him other things of the Indian country, things of ghost-haunted places and strange witcheries, with which they confused the game and the fish.

From That Girl Montana by Marah Ellis Ryan




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