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nounwitchfinder (plural witchfinders)
plural witchfinders · alternative witch-finder
- historicalA person employed to carry out witch-hunts and identify witches.
From the 1970s direct and public accusations of witchcraft increased in Zambia, and with them the use of expert witch-finders, who were ubiquitous in rural areas by the 1980s.
2017, Ronald Hutton, The Witch, Yale University Press, page 30
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