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Witchhunt

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witches hunt
Witch Craft Course, Witch, Witches University Of Metaphysical Sciences
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witch hunt

 
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–noun
an intensive effort to discover and expose disloyalty, subversion, dishonesty, or the like, usually based on slight, doubtful, or irrelevant evidence.
Also, witchʹ-huntʹ.

Origin:
1925–30

Related forms:
witch hunter, noun
witch-hunting, noun
witches hunt
Witch Craft Course, Witch, Witches University Of Metaphysical Sciences
UMSonline.org/CourseDescriptns.htm

witch-hunt

  [wich-huhnt]
–verb (used with object)
to subject to a witch hunt.
Origin:
1925–30
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Word Origin & History

witch hunt 
1640 in the literal sense; the extended sense is attested from 1932 (in witch-hunting), popularized in Cold War anti-Communist hysteria.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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