Noun: sorcery
| Singular | sorcery |
| Plural | sorceries |
Sample Sentences
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The tale is full of magic and sorcery.
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In the Middle Ages, people were often accused of practicing sorcery.
Nouns inflected like sorcery
clitoridectomy,
royal jelly,
whoopsy,
surrogacy,
urinary,
rastrography,
renoscopy,
sourtop blueberry,
forcible entry,
superficiary,
lipidosity,
potability,
phonography,
hyperproperty,
greenery,
conjugality,
ring singularity,
Brittany,
ignobility,
obscurity, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English sorcery, borrowed from Middle French sorcerie, ultimately derived from Latin sors (“fate”), from Proto-Indo-European *ser- (“to bind”). Cognate with serō, seriēs, sermō. Compare also French sorcier. See: Middle English Nouns '
sorcery', Latin Nouns '
sors', French Nouns '
sorcier'.