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/ˈwɪtʃhʌnt/ · noun
(now chiefly historical) A search for people believed to be using sorcery or harmful magic, typically in order to persecute or punish them..
To-night ye will see. It is the great witch-hunt, and many will be smelt out as wizards and slain.
Simpkins told us that before the days of English witch hunts, the coven organised public and popular festivities such as on the great days of May Eve, Hallowe'en, Candlemas and Lammas. These were called Witches' Sabbats or Frolics.
The rupturing of British rule over India in the rebellion of 1857 permitted a great witch-hunt, with lethal effects, to occur among the tribes of northern India.
Rank-and-file Communists everywhere are led away on a senseless witch-hunt after 'Trotskyists'.
The media is really on a witch-hunt against me. False reporting, and plenty of it - but we will prevail!
Even fewer people could believe that the UNCW administration would actually undertake a witch hunt against me, even going so far as to invoke their right to read my personal e-mails because they were on the university's system.
I defended myself vigorously on that complaint as well; also mentioning that Julie Ann Wilks had always disliked me and had been conducting “a witch hunt” against me. As soon as I said the words “witch hunt” Katy interrupted and wouldn't let me continue […]
“It is striking how poorly his usual playbook will work for the Epstein files debacle,” Ford wrote, adding that Trump “cannot credibly claim that he is the victim of some kind of ‘witch hunt,’ even though he is trying to do so.”
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Witch-hunt means (now chiefly historical) A search for people believed to be using sorcery or harmful magic, typically in order to persecute or punish them..
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To-night ye will see. It is the great witch-hunt, and many will be smelt out as wizards and slain.
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