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Witchcraft vs Witcraft - What's the difference?

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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

Noun

(en-noun)
  • 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 , 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 -craft

    witcraft

    English

    (Webster 1913)

    Noun

    (-)
  • 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 :
  • 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.
  • The art of reasoning; logic.
  • 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

    See also

    * (not to be confused with) witchcraft