witchfinder
English
Alternative forms
- witch-finder
Etymology
From witch + finder.
Noun
witchfinder (plural witchfinders)
- (chiefly historical) A person employed to carry out witch-hunts and identify witches.
- 2017, Ronald Hutton, The Witch, Yale University Press, page 30:
- From the 1970s direct and public accusations of witchcraft increased in Zambia, and with them the use of expert witch-finders, who were ubiquitous in rural areas by the 1980s.
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Derived terms
- witchfinder general