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Jugglery

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Witchcraft, sorcery; magical trickery, legerdemain. archaic, countable, uncountable

    "Omens were expounded, dreams were interpreted, and other tricks of jugglery perhaps resorted to, by which the pretended adepts of the period deceived and fascinated their deluded followers."

  2. 2
    the performance of a juggler wordnet
  3. 3
    Trickery or deception in general, or an instance of such. broadly, countable, uncountable

    "What they call the Great War is over […] and yet what do we see around us? Nothing but strife and juggleries and hatred and contempt and discord wherever you look."

  4. 4
    artful trickery designed to achieve an end wordnet

Etymology

From Old French juglerie, jouglerie, from jouglere (“juggler”).

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