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Sorcery vs Wizarding - What's the difference?

sorcery | wizarding |

As nouns the difference between sorcery and wizarding

is that sorcery is magical power; the use of witchcraft or magic arts while wizarding is the magical work of a wizard; sorcery, witchcraft.

As a verb wizarding is

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sorcery

English

Noun

(sorceries)
  • Magical power; the use of witchcraft or magic arts.

    • Synonyms

    * black magic * magic * witchcraft

    Related terms

    * sorcerer

    See also

    *

    wizarding

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (-)
  • The magical work of a wizard; sorcery, witchcraft.
  • * 1904 , Arthur Williams Marchmont, Norman Hardy, By snare of love?
    • And he said he knew the paper was but a forgery, my lord; that His Highness, Rechad Effendi, had never seen it; that his master the American knew this too; that he had learnt all my lord's plans by wizarding , and knew them...
  • * 2000 , Terry Pratchett, The Last Continent
    • Not using magic is what wizarding is all about!
  • * 2007 , William P MacNeil, Lex populi: the jurisprudence of popular culture?
    • For instance, when Dumbledore offered to pay him ten Galleons a week — a standard wizarding wage, but for an elf an embarras de richesses ...