WHITE-WITCH
\wˈa͡ɪtwˈɪt͡ʃ], \wˈaɪtwˈɪtʃ], \w_ˈaɪ_t_w_ˈɪ_tʃ]\
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A wizard or witch of a beneficent or good-natured disposition. "The common people call him a wizard, a white-witch, a conjuror, a cunning man."-Addison. "Her qualifications as white-witch were boundless cunning, equally boundless good-nature, considerable knowledge of human weaknesses, some mesmeric power, some skill in 'yarbs,' as she called her simples, etc."-Kingsley.
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