Contrivance vs Witcraft - What's the difference?
contrivance | witcraft |
a (mechanical) device to perform a certain task
a means, such as an elaborate plan or strategy, to accomplish a certain objective
* 2005 , .
something overly artful or artificial
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 :
The art of reasoning; logic.
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
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Noun
(en noun)- And along with each of these go their images, not the things themselves, — they too have come about by godlike contrivance .
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(Webster 1913)Noun
(-)- 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.
- 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