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Conjurer vs Diviner - What's the difference?

conjurer | diviner |

As nouns the difference between conjurer and diviner

is that conjurer is one who conjures, a magician while diviner is one who foretells the future.

conjurer

English

Alternative forms

* conjuror * conjurour (qualifier)

Noun

(en noun)
  • One who conjures, a magician.
  • * July 18 2012 , Scott Tobias, AV Club The Dark Knight Rises [http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-dark-knight-rises-review-batman,82624/]
  • With his crude potato-sack mask and fear-inducing toxins, The Scarecrow, a “psychopharmacologist” at an insane asylum, acts as a conjurer of nightmares, capable of turning his patients’ most terrifying anxieties against them.
  • * 1594' ''His incivility confirms no less. Good Doctor Pinch, you are a '''conjurer ; Establish him in his true sense again, And I will please you what you will demand.'' — Shakespeare, ''A Comedy of Errors , Act 4, Scene 4.
  • One who performs parlor tricks, sleight of hand.
  • * 1893' ''The man is by trade a '''conjurer and performer, going round the canteens after nightfall, and giving a little entertainment at each. — Arthur Conan Doyle, "The Adventure of the Crooked Man".
  • One who conjures; one who calls, entreats, or charges in a solemn manner.
  • (obsolete) One who conjectures shrewdly or judges wisely; a man of sagacity.
  • (Addison)

    diviner

    English

    Alternative forms

    * devynour, divinour (qualifier); divinor (obsolete)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who foretells the future.
  • One who searches for underground objects or water using a divining rod.
  • Synonyms

    * (one who foretells the future) foreteller, fortune-teller, prophet, seer, soothsayer * (one who searches for underground water) water diviner, dowser

    Derived terms

    * diviner's sage * water diviner

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