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Definition of "witch-finder" [witch-finder]

  • A professional discoverer of witches, whose services were sometimes employed when the persecution of so-called witches was in vogue. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

Use "witch-finder" in a sentence
  • "Apparently they felt she has a perfect right to follow in the train of a witch-finder."
  • "There's plenty of moralistic spluttering and froth at Daimnation, for example, and naturally that assiduous witch-finder Jonathan Kay is on the case as well."
  • "The story gained such universal applause that it soon afterwards brought down express from London the great witch-finder of the age, the Heaven-born"