necromanceress

plural necromanceresses

1. A female necromancer.

   Miss Nancy Price can’t be blamed for overdoing her necromanceress. The author had done that already. And I didn’t see how she could have dealt with it better.

   1916 November 22, T., “At the Play. “The Widow’s Might.””, in Punch, or The London Charivari, volume CLI, London: […] the Office, […], page 370, column 2

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   And with her wit she shall brighten the dimness her pathos brings into our eyes, till tears and smiles struggle together beneath the witchery of the fair necromanceress.

   1829 December, [John Wilson], “Noctes Ambrosianæ. No. XLVII.”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume XXVI, number CLX, page 871

   “And now that I remember,” he added, with a coolness that ill-concealed his anticipated triumph, “beneath her mantle she wore the dress of a necromanceress.”

   1840, [Joseph Holt Ingraham], The Quadroone; or, St. Michael’s Day, volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], page 277

   Of these, one’s face showed dim through a cloud of smoke from a hot dish of stewed oysters, like the face of your future husband in one of those charming visions conjured up by the great second-sight necromanceress, Madame ⸺ from Paris; […]

   1867, Sidney Lanier, Tiger-Lilies, New York, N.Y.: […] Hurd and Houghton, […], page 193

   Hot and parching tears rolled down the withered face of Mahora, as she pressed the vermeiled cheek of the lovely being who had won her way to the grim and seared heart of the necromanceress.

   1874, George H. Wilson, Ena, or The Ancient Maori, London: Smith, Elder & Co., […], page 274

   The woman approached closer to her with outstretched hand as if inviting her into communion with evil powers. She swayed back and forth for a moment and then for the second time lay senseless at the feet of the necromanceress.

   1911, William C[ollin] Levere, Vivian of Mackinac, Chicago, Ill.: Forbes & Company, pages 223–224

   Synonyms: necromancess