单词	coven
释义	covencov‧en /ˈkʌvən/ noun [countable] Word Origin WORD ORIGINcoven Origin: 1600-1700 coven ‘meeting, group of people’ (1500-1600), from Old French covin, from Medieval Latin convenium ‘agreement’, from Latin convenire; ➔ CONVENIENT Examples EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS Conrad was settled in an armchair in a far corner and felt like a witch in a coven. I imagined solemn covens chanting, straggling torchlight processions winding up to mountain tops, stone circles, sacred trees and springs. Many of the Witch King's coven fell stone dead. She was placed in a safe house but later returned to the coven of her own free will. Such societies or covens batten on their own secrecy. The coven will also employ magic, but this is only secondary to its beliefs and worship. They could have been mistaken for a coven of witches huddling together. This coven deals in secret assassination. word sets WORD SETS► Occult banshee, nouncoven, noundemon, noundemonic, adjectivedevil, nounESP, nounevil, adjectiveexorcism, nounexorcist, nounexorcize, verbextra-sensory perception, nounfiend, nounfortune-teller, nounmedium, nounmind reader, nounnecromancy, nounpalmist, nounpalmistry, nounpalm reader, nounparanormal, adjectiveparapsychology, nounpossessed, adjectiveprophecy, nounprophesy, verbpsychic, adjectivepsychic, nounpsychokinesis, nounseance, nounsoothsayer, nounspirit, nounSvengali, nountarot, nountelepathic, adjectivetelepathy, nounwitch, nounwizard, noun a group or meeting of witches
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