witch·er·y

[wich-uh-ree]
noun, plural witch·er·ies.
1.
witchcraft; magic.
2.
magical influence; fascination; charm: the witchery of her beauty.

Origin:
1540–50; witch + -ery

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witchery (ˈwɪtʃərɪ) [Click for IPA pronunciation guide]
 
n , pl -eries
1.  the practice of witchcraft
2.  magical or bewitching influence or charm

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Witchery is always a great word to know.
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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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Example sentences
By the witchery of its music and the radiance of image, poetry may rightly give pleasure to a leisure moment.
It's witchery they themselves aspire to, seeking for their own words the powers of spells.
If enough voters buy it, the ad will amount to successful media witchery.
Wouldn't some serious lawsuits take a lot of the air out of the bogus witchery and help prevent needless deaths.
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