dwimmercraft
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Etymology edit
From Middle English dwimmer-craft, dwemercraft, from Old English dweomorcræft (“magical arts, sorcery”), equivalent to dwimmer + -craft.
Noun edit
dwimmercraft (uncountable)
- (fantasy) The art of illusion; the art of magic; sorcery; magic.
- 2005, Samit Basu, Manticore's Secret:
- He had walked the wilds of Imokoi before, he had pierced rakshas illusions, seenthrough the mist of demonic dwimmer-craft centuries ago.
- 2011, John Henson, Broken Wings:
- The soldiers peered into the deep dark shaft In which lay the monk with tonsorshorn / A victim of the sorcerous lady's dwimmer craft / […]