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witchery

[wich-uh-ree] / ˈwɪtʃ ə ri /






NOUN
enchantment
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NOUN
sortilege
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In the theater, it’s easy to lose sight of Macbeth’s misgivings and regrets amid the thrilling witchery and suspenseful criminality.

From Los Angeles Times May 1, 2024

Yet for a good portion of this book, the actual witchery falls away.

From New York Times Aug. 9, 2022

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

Hollow and lifeless as a witchery clay figure.

From "Ceremony:" by Leslie Marmon Silko

The matchless eyes, whose witcheries    Have filled my heart with care; I well may prize the matchless eyes    Of Sophy Ribeaupierre.

From The Brother Avenged and Other Ballads by George Henry Borrow

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

Or when a thousand witcheries lay Felled with one stroke, at Fotheringay?

From Highways and Byways in Surrey by Hugh Thomson

He is taken by her witcheries and beauty, and the page, by the lady's maid, falls into the same mistake as his master, who thinks he is there only one night.

From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 by Isaac Disraeli

And he wakened himself with the apparently hopeless effort of convincing Billie he had never forgotten her despite the feminine witcheries of Sonora.

From The Treasure Trail A Romance of the Land of Gold and Sunshine by Robert Wesley Amick




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