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WHITE MAGIC
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Dictionary entry overview: What does white magic mean?
• WHITE MAGIC (noun)
The noun WHITE MAGIC has 1 sense:
1. magic used only for good purposes
Familiarity information: WHITE MAGIC used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Magic used only for good purposes
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("white magic" is a kind of...):
magic; thaumaturgy (any art that invokes supernatural powers)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "white magic"):
theurgy (white magic performed with the help of beneficent spirits (as formerly practiced by Neoplatonists))
Context examples
Yet these powers are ever used for good, and they are the gift of God and not of the devil, which is the difference betwixt white magic and black.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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