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Sortilege vs Sortilegy - What's the difference?

sortilege | sortilegy |

As nouns the difference between sortilege and sortilegy

is that sortilege is magic spell, sorcery, witchcraft while sortilegy is sortilege.

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

    sortilegy

    English

    Noun

    (sortilegies)
  • sortilege
    • (De Quincey)