Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A professional discoverer of witches, whose services were sometimes employed when the persecution of so-called witches was in vogue.
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Examples
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Apparently they felt she has a perfect right to follow in the train of a witch-finder.
Kenya Declares a Holiday Walter Jon Williams 2008
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There's plenty of moralistic spluttering and froth at Daimnation, for example, and naturally that assiduous witch-finder Jonathan Kay is on the case as well.
Archive 2008-11-01 2008
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There's plenty of moralistic spluttering and froth at Daimnation, for example, and naturally that assiduous witch-finder Jonathan Kay is on the case as well.
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The story gained such universal applause that it soon afterwards brought down express from London the great witch-finder of the age, the Heaven-born
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The story gained such universal applause that it soon afterwards brought down express from London the great witch-finder of the age, the Heaven-born
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When one is accused by a witch-finder of being a heretic, nothing can be said in one?
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Later I saw a black witch-finder of Kush scratch it in the sand of a nameless river.
The Conquering Sword of Conan Howard, Robert E. 2005
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Later I saw a black witch-finder of Kush scratch it in the sand of a nameless river.
The Conquering Sword Of Conan Howard, Robert E. 2005
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“Pooh — pooh — the devil would laugh both at Blindas and his warrant, constable and witch-finder to boot,” said old Dame
Kenilworth 2004
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He was originally a witch-finder — about as low an occupation as exists amongst aboriginal savages.
ruzuzu commented on the word witch-finder
See pricker.
February 5, 2011