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  • noun See necromancy.

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  • noun Necromancy; magic involving death.

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From the Anglo-Norman nigremancie and the Middle French nigromancie, alterations of nigromance, after the Late Latin nigromantia, an alteration of the Classical Latin necromantīa, by association with niger ("black") (compare black art).

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