cantrip

noun

Definition of cantripnext
chiefly Scottish
as in incantation

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  1. incantation
  2. invocation
  3. spell
  4. curse
  5. conjuration
  6. jinx
  7. enchantment
  8. sorcery
Noun
  • As passengers chanted the incantation together, white light flashed through the carriage, and music swelled from the speakers.
    — Emily Tarinelli, Los Angeles Times, 29 July 2026
  • On the title track, a spare arrangement slowly unfurls around James’ voice, its shifting texture and gauzy atmosphere giving his existential musings the quality of a private incantation.
    — Sophie Miller, Rolling Stone, 28 July 2026
Definition of incantation
Noun
  • The mandate may not have any legal authority to compel states to change their guidelines in the near term, although the invocation of the attorney general suggests that litigation may be on the horizon.
    — Will Gottsegen, The Atlantic, 13 Aug. 2026
  • Wermiel, the American University law professor, considers the invocation of Brown to be the most offensive passage in Roberts’s body of opinions.
    — Margaret Talbot, New Yorker, 10 Aug. 2026
Definition of invocation
Noun
  • Mourinho’s first game back at the Bernabeu should be box-office given the divisions his last spell in charge from 2010 to 2013 caused at Madrid — and his behaviour when managing Benfica against Madrid in the Champions League last year.
    — Dermot Corrigan, New York Times, 14 Aug. 2026
  • Her attempt to drain the last bit of magic had backfired into a Fear spell.
    — Carly Tagen-Dye, PEOPLE, 13 Aug. 2026
Definition of spell
Noun
  • Clementine, the oldest daughter, takes control to help break out the other children, and Mary, in telling her story publicly, has agency in rectifying the familial curse.
    — Rachel Syme, New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2026
  • What did Widow’s Bay creator and showrunner Katie Dippold see in Matthew Rhys as Tom Loftis, mayor of the New England island town plagued by a historic curse?
    — Beatrice Verhoeven, HollywoodReporter, 7 Aug. 2026
Definition of curse
Noun
  • Most of the recipients dismissed the composer as a crank, but a few were spellbound by his transcendentalist conjurations, and a cult began to grow.
    — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2024
  • Theater is a more symbolic space, a conjuration of lights and plywood, which offered Comer a kind of freedom.
    — Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2023
Definition of conjuration
Noun
  • The ‘seven-year jinx’ — the K-pop industry’s shorthand for the contract expiration point at which groups typically fracture — did not claim TWICE on schedule, but in a way, has just claimed its first member now.
    — Hannah Abraham, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2026
  • The Samba Nation have an opportunity to break that jinx today.
    — Jibin Joseph, PC Magazine, 5 July 2026
Definition of jinx
Noun
  • All of them are concerned with legacy, particularly among fathers and daughters (Shakespeare had two and lost his only son), and all of them touch a realm beyond the mundane — a place of gods and dreams, oracles and enchantment.
    — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 12 Aug. 2026
  • The enchantment state ranked 49th in safety and 47th in education and health.
    — Veronica Fernandez-Alvarado, Sacbee.com, 12 Aug. 2026
Definition of enchantment
Noun
  • With ancient Greek tale The Odyssey still slashing its way to peak box office, the sword and sorcery age remains a potent genre for Hollywood.
    — Borys Kit, HollywoodReporter, 13 Aug. 2026
  • These are some of man's most sorcery-like achievements, providing materials with excellent engineering properties.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 6 July 2026
Definition of sorcery
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“Cantrip.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cantrip. Accessed 17 Aug. 2026.

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