coven

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The Covens The word coven is a derivative of 'convene', and is variously spelt coven_, coeven_, covine_, cuwing_, and even covey_.

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  • Mostly, the girls did a few ceremonies to keep her quiet, because for them the real purpose of the coven was to see friends, even if they were friends simply because they were, really, the only people you could talk to freely because they had the same problems and would understand what you were moaning about. —  Wintersmith
  • So for the whole coven, after Hogswatch, it was going to be All About Annagramma time. —  Wintersmith
  • ‘The cleaner took us inside Chief witch of the local coven, you know.’ He appeared to be about to add to this information, but checked himself. —  The Murder of Busy Lizzie - Gladys Mitchell - Bradley 46: 1973
  • ‘Do you mean that the whole coven was in a plot to rid the world of poor Eliza Chayleigh?’ she asked. —  The Murder of Busy Lizzie - Gladys Mitchell - Bradley 46: 1973
  • The last meeting of the coven, therefore, he argued, could not have been held so very long ago. —  The Murder of Busy Lizzie - Gladys Mitchell - Bradley 46: 1973
 

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  1. Perhaps from Middle English covent, assembly, convent; see convent.
 

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