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WHAT DOES WITCH-HUNTER MEAN IN ENGLISH?
Witch-hunt
A witch-hunt is a search for witches or evidence of witchcraft, often involving moral panic, or mass hysteria. Before 1750 it was legally sanctioned and involved official witchcraft trials. The classical period of witchhunts in Europe and North America falls into the Early Modern period or about 1480 to 1750, spanning the upheavals of the Reformation and the Thirty Years' War, resulting in an estimated 40,000 to 60,000 executions. The last executions of people convicted as witches in Europe took place in the 18th century. In the Kingdom of Great Britain, witchcraft ceased to be an act punishable by law with the Witchcraft Act of 1735. In Germany, sorcery remained punishable by law into the late 18th century. Contemporary witch-hunts have been reported from Sub-Saharan Africa, India and Papua New Guinea. Official legislation against witchcraft is still found in Saudi Arabia and Cameroon. From at least the 1930s, the term "witch-hunt" has been used figuratively to describe activities by governments to seek out and expose perceived enemies, often apparently as a means of directing public opinion by fostering a degree of moral panic.
Definition of witch-hunter in the English dictionary
The definition of witch-hunter in the dictionary is a person who conducts rigorous campaign to round up or expose dissenters on the pretext of safeguarding the welfare of the public. Other definition of witch-hunter is a person who carries out a systematic attempt to expose and persecute alleged witches.
The translations of witch-hunter from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «witch-hunter» in English.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «WITCH-HUNTER» OVER TIME
The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «witch-hunter» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «witch-hunter» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.
Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about witch-hunter
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QUOTES WITH «WITCH-HUNTER»
Famous quotes and sentences with the word witch-hunter.
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Adolphe Menjou
I'm a Red-baiter; I'm a witch-hunter if the witches are Communists.
10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «WITCH-HUNTER»
Discover the use of witch-hunter in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to witch-hunter and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The WitchHunter
My origins shall remain unknown, my true self hidden. I have been called by many names, but in this life I am known as the Witch Hunter. I have been asleep these past 150 years, until I was awoken by a haunting call.
Nicole R. Taylor, 2013
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The Malleus Maleficarum
Mostly a compilation of superstition and folklore, the book was taken very seriously at the time it was written in the 15th century and became a kind of spiritual law book used by judges to determine the guilt of the accused"--From ...
Heinrich Kramer, James Sprenger, 2007
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The WitchHunter
Exeter, 1195.
Bernard Knight, 2004
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WitchHunter
The dreaded Witch Hunters--including the legendary Marius Thurlman--hunt out evil throughout the towns and villages of the medieval Old World, ruthlessly suppressing any of those daring to ally themselves with the Dark Powers with any means ...
C. l. Werner, 2004
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WitchHunter
Witch-hunting galore in 368-page omnibus format!
Jung-Man Cho, 2013
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The Scourge of Jericho
In the year 1666, Jakob von Drachenfels, seeking a life of adventure like his father, joins an elite military order of witch hunters and is sent to recover a biblical relic from a witch-infested castle.
Stuart Daly, 2013
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WitchHunter
An architect's love for the missing white witch, Penelope, forces Al Gardner to undertake a dangerous hunt that ranges from Seattle, Washington, to Suffolk County, England.
David R. Addleman, 2001
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WitchHunter
Fifteen year old Molly is visiting her eccentric aunt who just happens to be a Wiccan in Salem, Massachusetts.
Kathleen S. Allen, 2011
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Honesty Wart: WitchHunter!
Life for Honesty and his sisters Mercy and Patience is not a bundle of laughs.
Alan MacDonald, 2012
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The WitchHunter's
Full of details on hos they root out evil and disorder, many secrets are revealed about the Templars of Sigmar. Accompanying the text is wonderful design and fantastic internal illustrations.
Darius Hinks, 2006
NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «WITCH-HUNTER»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term witch-hunter is used in the context of the following news items.
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Nigerian 'witch-hunter' Helen Ukpabio could be banned from the UK
A Nigerian 'witch-hunter' who claims any child who cries is a 'servant of Satan' could be banned from the UK following calls to Home Secretary Theresa May that ... «Daily Mail, Apr 14»
REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Witch-Hunter [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/witch-hunter>. Apr 2024 ».
