dwimmercraft
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Noun — (literary) The practice of illusion, magic, and sorcery.
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Etymology
The word came into English via Middle English dwimmer-craft, dwemercraft, which developed from Old English dweomorcræft (“magical arts, sorcery”), and can be broken down as dwimmer + -craft.
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