Witch-hunts — Infobox Album Name = Witch Hunts Type = studio Artist = Darkwoods My Betrothed Released = 1998 Genre = Symphonic Black metal Length = 41:38 Label = Spinefarm Records Last album = Autumn Roars Thunder (1996) This album = Witch Hunts (1998) Next… … Wikipedia
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Witch-hunt — Witch trial redirects here. For the song by Rush, see Fear series. For the novel by Ian Rankin, see Witch Hunt (novel). A witch hunt is a search for witches or evidence of witchcraft, often involving moral panic, mass hysteria and mob lynching,… … Wikipedia
witch-hunt — n an attempt to find and punish people in a society or organization whose opinions are regarded as wrong or dangerous used to show disapproval ▪ anti Communist witch hunts … Dictionary of contemporary English
witch-hunt — witch hunts N COUNT: oft N against n (disapproval) A witch hunt is an attempt to find and punish a particular group of people who are being blamed for something, often simply because of their opinions and not because they have actually done… … English dictionary
Witch trials in the Early Modern period — Punishments for witchcraft in 16th century Germany. Woodcut from Tengler s Laienspiegel, Mainz, 1508. The Witch trials in the Early Modern period were a period of witch hunts between the fifteenth and eighteenth centuries,[1] when across Early… … Wikipedia
Witch trials in Early Modern Europe — The period of witch trials in Early Modern Europe came in waves and then subsided. There were early trials in the 15th and early 16th centuries, but then the witch scare went into decline, before becoming a big issue again and peaking in the 17th … Wikipedia
witch hunt — n hounding, hue and cry, McCarthyism * * * witch hunter. witch hunting, n. an intensive effort to discover and expose disloyalty, subversion, dishonesty, or the like, usually based on slight, doubtful, or irrelevant evidence. Also, witch hunt.… … Useful english dictionary
witch-hunt — UK / US noun [uncountable] showing disapproval an attempt to find all the people in a particular group in order to punish them or treat them unfairly He called the crackdown a witch hunt . • Cultural note: The original witch hunts took place in… … English dictionary
witch-hunt — noun (C) a deliberate attempt, often based on false information, to find and punish people in a society or organization whose opinions are regarded as wrong or dangerous: McCarthy s Communist witch hunts … Longman dictionary of contemporary English
