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- noun Plural form of
witchery .
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Examples
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Even now he cometh with witcheries and sorceries; so beware thy tongue, lest evil befall thee and thy days be short in the land!
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The slops and water-witcheries of the coffee - houses, varying only in sloppiness and witchery, never even approximate or suggest what you and I are accustomed to drink as tea and coffee.
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Sit not down by woodland founts; scorn the witcheries of sleep.
Iphigenia at Aulis 2008
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For she ensnares the eyes of men, o'erthrows their towns, and burns their houses, so potent are her witcheries!
The Trojan Women 2008
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For she ensnares the eyes of men, o'erthrows their towns, and burns their houses, so potent are her witcheries!
The Trojan Women 2008
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Sit not down by woodland founts; scorn the witcheries of sleep.
Iphigenia at Aulis 2008
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“There is,” replied Malvoisin, “among those who came hither with Bois – Guilbert, two fellows whom I well know; servants they were to my brother Philip de Malvoisin, and passed from his service to that of Front-de-Boeuf — It may be they know something of the witcheries of this woman.”
Ivanhoe 2004
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But all the witcheries of that unwaning weather did not merely lend new spells and potencies to the outward world.
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Your weakling father, degenerated to mumbling voodoo spells and other witcheries, let one fall from your possession.
The Dreamthief's Daughter Moorcock, Michael, 1939- 2001
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And at noon he remembered how one of his companions, who was a gatherer of samphire, had told him of a certain young Witch who dwelt in a cave at the head of the bay and was very cunning in her witcheries.
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