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Contrivance vs Witcraft - What's the difference?

contrivance | witcraft |

As nouns the difference between contrivance and witcraft

is that contrivance is a (mechanical) device to perform a certain task while witcraft is art or skill of the mind; mental skill; contrivance; invention; the art of wit.

contrivance

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • a (mechanical) device to perform a certain task
  • a means, such as an elaborate plan or strategy, to accomplish a certain objective
  • * 2005 , .
  • And along with each of these go their images, not the things themselves, — they too have come about by godlike contrivance .
  • something overly artful or artificial
  • witcraft

    English

    (Webster 1913)

    Noun

    (-)
  • Art or skill of the mind; mental skill; contrivance; invention; the art of wit.
  • * 1996 , Michael Billig, Arguing and thinking: a rhetorical approach to social psychology :
  • In its pure form, witcraft' can be seen as a democratic art. because it does not depend upon technical expertise. Within an ideal context of pure ' witcraft , the powerful and the powerless meet upon equal terms.
  • The art of reasoning; logic.
  • It argues that a rhetorical approach maintains space for agency on the behalf of employees (through the witcraft of argument) ...'' — Gillian Symon, ''Developing the Political Perspective on Technological Change Through Rhetorical Analysis , Management Communication Quarterly, Vol. 22, No. 1., 2008

    See also

    * (not to be confused with) witchcraft