necromancer
noun
a person who uses witchcraft or sorcery, especially to reanimate dead people or to foretell the future by communicating with them.
necromancers
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pluralof necromancer.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Wearing sweatshirts and mom jeans, they look more like a focus group on suburban Costco shoppers than a circle of aspiring necromancers.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 10, 2018
If Ben Mezrich’s “Woolly” is to be believed, mammoths may be returning someday soon to a tundra near you, resurrected by the necromancers of synthetic biology.
From New York Times ● Dec. 27, 2017
Early records of Haitian zombies described them as pliant laborers, summoned from their graves by greedy necromancers to work in sugar-cane fields at night.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 27, 2016
Here stormed the Washington Capitals, necromancers in red sweaters, raising themselves from the dead.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 28, 2015
So far as I know Mr. Moore has not expanded his theory to include a discussion of acrobats, revivalists, necromancers, free versifiers, camel drivers, paying tellers, painters, pugilists, architects, and opera singers.
From Interpreters by Carl Van Vechten
