Wizarding
noun, verb
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 The magical work of a wizard; sorcery, witchcraft. uncountable
"And he said he knew the paper was but a forgery, my lord; that His Highness, Rechad Effendi, had never seen it; that his master the American knew this too; that he had learnt all my lord's plans by wizarding, and knew them..."
Verb
- 1 present participle and gerund of wizard form-of, gerund, participle, present
Example
More examples"And he said he knew the paper was but a forgery, my lord; that His Highness, Rechad Effendi, had never seen it; that his master the American knew this too; that he had learnt all my lord's plans by wizarding, and knew them..."
Etymology
From wizard + -ing, popularized in the late 1990s by J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter novels.
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