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S vs Sortilege - What's the difference?

s | sortilege |

As a letter s

is the letter s with a.

As a noun sortilege is

magic spell, sorcery, witchcraft.

s

Translingual

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Letter

  • The nineteenth letter of the .

    • Symbol

    (wikipedia) (mul-symbol)
  • voiceless alveolar fricative
  • Symbol for second , an SI unit of measurement of time.

    • See also

    (Latn-script) * * (esh) * (dze) * {{Letter , page=S , NATO=Sierra , Morse=··· , Character=S , Braille=? }} Image:Latin S.png, Capital and lowercase versions of S , in normal and italic type Image:Fraktur letter S.png, Uppercase and lowercase S in Fraktur Symbols for SI units ----

    sortilege

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Witchcraft, magic, especially as a means of making decisions or predictions.
  • * 1819 , (Walter Scott), Ivanhoe :
  • *:We have therefore summoned to our presence a Jewish woman, by name Rebecca, daughter of Isaac of York — a woman infamous for sortileges and for witcheries.
  • *1971 , , Religion and the Decline of Magic , Folio Society 2012, page 115:
  • *:Orthodox believers were less happy about using sortilege to coerce God into taking decisions on their behalf.
  • * 2001 , (JT Leroy), Sarah :
  • *:‘Too much evil sortilege ,’ Glad always says when someone suggests he open a franchise over Cheat Ridge.

    • Derived terms

    * sortilegious