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witchmonger

witchmonger noun: one who has dealings with witches.

Noun

witchmonger (plural witchmongers)

  1. (uncommon) One who has dealings with witches.
    • [see title]1584, Reginald Scot, The Discouerie of Witchcraft: Wherein the Lewde Dealing of Witches and Witchmongers is Notablie Detected …
    • [...] to suggest that they may be interpolations by ‘some fond papist or witchmonger.’ And, on the principle of ‘set a witchmonger to catch a witchmonger’, he cited the French Calvinist demonologist, Lambert Daneau, as a denier of that which ‘S. Augustine and Apuleus doe credibly wryte,’ namely...2011 June 30, Philip C. Almond, England's First Demonologist: Reginald Scot and 'The Discoverie of Witchcraft', Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN

Forms of witchmonger

pluralwitchmongers

Origin of witchmonger

From witch + monger.

Words formed from witchmonger

  • witchmongering

Questions about witchmonger

What does witchmonger mean?
Witchmonger means one who has dealings with witches.
What part of speech is witchmonger?
Witchmonger is a noun.
What is the plural of witchmonger?
The plural of witchmonger is witchmongers.

Words near witchmonger in the dictionary

  1. witchlings
  2. witchly
  3. witchman
  4. witchmeal
  5. witchmen
  6. witchmonger
  7. witchmongers
  8. witcho
  9. witchoo
  10. witchoura
  11. witchouras

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