wisewoman
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Example Sentences
- "The fortune-teller often carries out practices that are not easily distinguishable from those of the witch, and the white witch and wisewoman maintain themselves in evidence not only by dealing with the “overlooking” so often suspected to be the work of the black witch, but by side lines of children’s diseases and as herbalists and consultants on matters which in the town fall to the beauty parlour. The wisemen are far more numerous than the witches."
- "The modern green witch finds her foremothers and forefathers in village herbalists, midwives, healers, wisewomen, and cunning-folk who performed particular services for their communities."
- "Geralt discovers she is now eking out an existence as a witch—a wisewoman stuck curing ailments of animals and peasants alike, all the while waiting for the winds of fate to blow in her favor."