witchmonger
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
witchmonger (plural witchmongers)
- (uncommon) One who has dealings with witches.
- 1584, Reginald Scot, The Discouerie of Witchcraft: Wherein the Lewde Dealing of Witches and Witchmongers is Notablie Detected [...]:
- [see title]
- 2011 June 30, Philip C. Almond, England's First Demonologist: Reginald Scot and 'The Discoverie of Witchcraft', Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN:
- [...] 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 ‘that Sorcerers can chaunge men into other formes […]’
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References[edit]
- Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.