Witchcraft vs Witcraft - What's the difference?
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The practice of witches; magic, sorcery or the use supernatural powers to influence or predict events.
* 1387 , John Trevisa (transl.), Polychronicon Ranulphi Higden Monachi Cestrensis ,
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.
Witchcraft is a see also of witcraft.
As nouns the difference between witchcraft and witcraft
is that witchcraft is the practice of witches; magic, sorcery or the use supernatural powers to influence or predict events while witcraft is art or skill of the mind; mental skill; contrivance; invention; the art of wit.witchcraft
English
(wikipedia witchcraft)Noun
(en-noun)chapter XLIV:
- And in þat ilond is sortilege and wicchecraft i-vsed. For wommen þere selliþ schipmen wynde, as it were i-closed vnder þre knottes of þrede, so þat þe more wynd he wol haue, he wil vnknette þe mo knottes.
- Wiccans believe in a modernised form of witchcraft .
See also
* spellcraft * gypsycraft English words suffixed with -craftwitcraft
English
(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