Definitions for sorcery

sorcery sor·cer·y

Spelling: [sawr-suh-ree]
IPA: /ˈsɔr sə ri/

Sorcery is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 117 anagrams from letters in sorcery (ceorrsy).

Definitions for sorcery

noun

  1. the art, practices, or spells of a person who is supposed to exercise supernatural powers through the aid of evil spirits; black magic; witchery.

Origin of sorcery

1250-1300; Middle English sorcerie Medieval Latin sorceria. See sorcerer, -y3

Examples for sorcery

Witchcraft and sorcery he called it, and in Zuñi to be accused of witchcraft is death.

But they, deaf alike to the song and the sorcery, rowed harder than ever.

The history of psychiatry and sorcery proves that we are not exaggerating.

Saudi citizens, too, have been arraigned, and executed, for sorcery.

sorcery reads backwards—and I saw him so read from that scroll of his.

He had acquired the art of sorcery through the cultivation of magic.

In all kinds of writers we may remark an infinity of stories of magic, spells and sorcery.

Saudi Arabia has recently beheaded women for “sorcery” but has avoided apostasy trials involving its few Christian converts.

For foreign household workers in Saudi Arabia, most of them women, sorcery charges are more common than you might think.

It is not as the consequence of a poison-speck in her own heart that she has recourse to sorcery.

Word Value for sorcery
Scrable

12

Words with friends

12

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