white witch
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Etymology edit
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Noun edit
white witch (plural white witches)
- A witch who practises white magic.
- 1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society, published 2012, page 239:
- it was unclear whether the client of the white witch was committing an offence or not, and he very seldom made an appearance in the law courts.