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noun

Witchery n. (pl. witcheries)

Sorcery; enchantment; witchcraft. "Great Comus, Deep skilled in all his mother's witcheries." "A woman infamous... for witcheries."

Fascination; irresistible influence; enchantment. "He never felt The witchery of the soft blue sky." "The dear, dear witchery of song."

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Etymology of 'Witchery'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Witchery" Quotes from Famous Books

... king, spoke then, and because the witchery of the perfect beauty and the magic charm of Deirdre was felt by him even before she was born, he said: "She shall not die. Upon myself I take the doom. The child shall be kept apart from all men until she is of an age ...

— A Book of Myths • Jean Lang

... coils of wire came up from the earth and down from the sun and entered this low lair of witchery. The gathered lightnings of the world centered here, binding with beams of light the ends of the earth. The doors gaped on the gloom within. He paused ...

— Darkwater - Voices From Within The Veil • W. E. B. Du Bois

... "and you practising your horse-witchery upon her. I have been of an unsubdued spirit, I acknowledge, but I was always kind to you; and if you have made me cry, it's a poor thing ...

— The Romany Rye - A Sequel to 'Lavengro' • George Borrow

... to her sweetest deep tones, and there was a supplicating beam in her eyes, unintelligible to the direct Englishwoman, except under the heading of a power of witchery fearful to think of in one so young, ...

— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith

... pensee[Fr]; intention &c. 620. inducement, consideration; attraction; loadstone; magnet, magnetism, magnetic force; allectation|, allective|; temptation, enticement, agacerie[obs3], allurement, witchery; bewitchment, bewitchery; charm; spell &c. 993; fascination, blandishment, cajolery; seduction, seducement; honeyed words, voice of the tempter, song of the Sirens forbidden fruit, golden apple. persuasibility[obs3], persuasibleness[obs3]; attractability[obs3]; impressibility, susceptibility; ...

— Roget's Thesaurus

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