Definition of sorceressnext
as in witch
a woman believed to have often harmful supernatural powers asked the sorceress to cast an evil spell over the village

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Recent Examples of sorceress Decades before portraying one of literature’s greatest sorceresses in Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, Samantha Morton was a magician’s assistant. Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 19 July 2026 Odysseus even implies that his delay in getting home might have as much to do with a guilty conscience as with intervening gods or the enchanting sorceress named Calypso. Gal Beckerman, The Atlantic, 17 July 2026 Helen’s famous face has been disfigured, presumably by her angry husband, Menelaus; the sorceress Circe uses her witchcraft in self-defense, seemingly as a result of traumatic encounters with men. Caroline Mimbs Nyce, New Yorker, 17 July 2026 Shirka, the computer on Ulysses' ship, takes her name from Circe, a sorceress. Richard Edwards, Space.com, 17 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for sorceress
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Noun
  • She and Kidman reprise their roles as sisters Sally and Gillian Owens, witches in Massachusetts who must once more confront a family curse that causes the deaths of men whom women in their family fall in love with.
    Tommy McArdle, PEOPLE, 20 Aug. 2026
  • The film takes an almost body horror turn when the crew comes across the witch Circe.
    Wisdom Iheanyichukwu, Vanity Fair, 17 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • The sorcerers, it was thought, targeted their victims by stealing bits of their hair, clothes, nails, or feces, and wrapping them in a bundle with leaves.
    Rachel Aviv, New Yorker, 17 Aug. 2026
  • The man was a rock and roll sound smith and a lyrical sorcerer.
    Liza Lentini, SPIN, 14 Aug. 2026

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“Sorceress.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sorceress. Accessed 24 Aug. 2026.

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