What is the difference between sorcerer and wizard? I know that the nomenclature is unclear. However, the common usage seems to indicate: a wizard is born an ordinary mortal, learns magic and s...

The female equivalent of a sorcerer is a sorceress; very roughly, the female equivalent of a wizard or warlock is a witch, although in figurative modern usage "witch" has strong negative connotations (an …

What is the female equivalent of a "warlock"? It seems that other male-only words for paranormal practitioners have female equivalents: Wizard/Witch Sorcerer/Sorceress Enchanter/Enchantress …

Old English wicce "female magician, sorceress," in later use especially "a woman supposed to have dealings with the devil or evil spirits and to be able by their cooperation to perform supernatural acts," …

Nov 25, 2016 · Sorcerer, enchanter, and conjurer could be given a female form of sorceress, enchantress, and conjuress; but it's not necessarily "correct" to do so — various fictional sources will …

Aug 7, 2015 · Is there a single word for witches and wizards both, regardless of gender? Edit 1: Is there a single word for the category of people who do magic (like witches, wizards, warlocks, sorcerers, …

In conversation today I wanted to find a set of words that have an "or" sound in their middles, as in "torrent" and "sorcerer". I couldn't find one. Most rhyming dictionaries I found only concer...

May 29, 2015 · Found+adjective is a form often used in expressions like "found guilty" or "found wanting" (probably because findings are the outcomes of inquiries, trials, inquests and audits). …

Jan 25, 2021 · The phrase has been used before, but the meme seems to have taken off in May 2009, according Google Insights. The blue line is "what do we have here", and the others are co-incident " [ …

I understand that the verb awake has two different past participle forms, awoken and awaked. Checking Google Ngram I saw that the former has become more popular than the latter in the last century. I