witchmonger

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noun

One who has dealings with witches.

Scrabble 22

Meanings

nounwitchmonger (plural witchmongers)

plural witchmongers

  1. uncommonOne 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 …
    1 more example

    [...] 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[…]’

    2011 June 30, Philip C. Almond, England's First Demonologist: Reginald Scot and 'The Discoverie of Witchcraft', Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN

Origin

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APA

witchmonger. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/witchmonger

MLA

“witchmonger.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/witchmonger. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “witchmonger,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/witchmonger.

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