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egromancy

egromancy is the alternative form of necromancy.

Meaning of necromancy

Noun

necromancy (countable and uncountable, plural necromancies)

  1. Divination involving the dead or death.
    • And for to make this treatise the more pleasaunt and facill, I have put it in forme of a Dialogue, which I have diuided into three bookes: The first speaking of Magie in general, and Necromancie in special.1597, King James Daemonologie, (Please provide the book title or journal name)
  2. Loosely, any sorcery or witchcraft, especially involving death or the dead, particularly sorcery involving raising or reanimating the dead.
  3. (Internet) Synonym of necroposting.
    Synonyms:
    necroposting

Origin of egromancy

Coined by Richard Francis Burton from Middle English forms of necromancy, such as egremauncey and egremauncye.

Questions about egromancy

What is egromancy the alternative form of?
Egromancy is the alternative form of necromancy.

Words near egromancy in the dictionary

  1. Egripo
  2. Egripons
  3. Egrisi
  4. egritude
  5. egritudes
  6. egromancy
  7. EGS
  8. Egstow
  9. EGTA
  10. egtazic acid
  11. Egton

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Adapted from Wiktionary: egromancy (page history and authors); necromancy (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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