witching

noun

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Etymology: From Middle English wicching, wicchand, equivalent to witch + -ing.

Of or pertaining to witchcraft or sorcery, or to witches or sorcerers.
“'Tis the witching time of night, / Orbed is the moon and bright, / And the Stars they glisten, glisten, / Seeming with bright eyes to listen.”
Of a person: having the power to bewitch someone or something.
Bewitching, enchanting.
“But who is this witching beauty by his side, who would fain impress you with a belief that that mischief which will not remain concealed for the briefest period, is not her entire composition?”

Etymology: From Middle English wicchinge, from Old English wiċċung (“witching, witchcraft”), equivalent to witch + -ing.

gerund of witch: an act of witchcraft.
“There was a lot of information to draw upon because his occupation exposed him to more witchings every month than most individuals experienced in a life time.”

Etymology: From Middle English wicching, wicchand, equivalent to witch + -ing.