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Witchcraft vs Wizarding - What's the difference?

witchcraft | wizarding |

As nouns the difference between witchcraft and wizarding

is that witchcraft is the practice of witches; magic, sorcery or the use supernatural powers to influence or predict events while wizarding is the magical work of a wizard; sorcery, witchcraft.

As a verb wizarding is

present participle of wizard.

witchcraft

English

(wikipedia 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

    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 ...