Definitions

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  • adjective rare Opposed to magic or witchcraft.
  • adjective in fiction Serving to counteract magic or its effects.

Etymologies

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anti- +‎ magic

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Examples

  • He recognized that sunstone antimagic had defeated him.

    Immortalis Salvatore, R. A., 1959- 2003

  • Pony fell into that stone and called forth its antimagic energies, then threw them out wide to the waves.

    Immortalis Salvatore, R. A., 1959- 2003

  • Certainly it was easier to put up a sunstone antimagic wave than to utilize the spirit-walking ability of the soul stone.

    Immortalis Salvatore, R. A., 1959- 2003

  • Connected through his hematite, he could tell that there was some sunstone antimagic about, but it was nothing substantial out here, beyond the gate, and certainly nothing that would inhibit the power of King Aydrian.

    Immortalis Salvatore, R. A., 1959- 2003

  • Next Aydrian worked the sunstone, the antimagic stone.

    Ascendance Salvatore, R. A., 1959- 2001

  • Next Aydrian worked the sunstone, the antimagic stone.

    Ascendance Salvatore, R. A., 1959- 2001

  • If she felt the battle of wills begin between her and Je'howith, she was to pinch her skin with the enchanted brooch's pin, nothing more, and the antimagic wave would wash the old abbot's intruding spirit out of her,

    Mortalis Salvatore, R. A., 1959- 1999

  • If she felt the battle of wills begin between her and Je'howith, she was to pinch her skin with the enchanted brooch's pin, nothing more, and the antimagic wave would wash the old abbot's intruding spirit out of her,

    Mortalis Salvatore, R. A., 1959- 1999

  • Only these past three years, when we became grown and thou studied the magic and I the antimagic of my kind, have we been separate, and though it had to be, I missed thee, Bane.

    Out of Phaze Anthony, Piers 1987

  • Only these past three years, when we became grown and thou studied the magic and I the antimagic of my kind, have we been separate, and though it had to be, I missed thee, Bane.

    Out of Phaze Anthony, Piers 1987

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