jugglery

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jugglery

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From Old French juglerie, jouglerie, from jouglere (“juggler”).

noun juggleries

archaic, countable, uncountable Witchcraft, sorcery; magical trickery, legerdemain. Omens were expounded, dreams were interpreted, and other tricks of jugglery perhaps resorted to, by which the pretended adepts of the period deceived and fascinated their deluded followers.
Similar: prestigiation, sleight of hand, conjuration, conjuring, dweomercraft, hocus-pocus, illusionism, jugglery, legerdemain, magic, palmistry, prestidigitation
broadly, countable, uncountable Trickery or deception in general, or an instance of such. What they call the Great War is over […] and yet what do we see around us? Nothing but strife and juggleries and hatred and contempt and discord wherever you look.
Similar: legerdemain, sleight of hand, deception, imposition, hype, deceit, dupery, fiddle, fetch, hocus-pocus, jugglery, list

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@misc{jugglery_2026,
  title = {jugglery},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/jugglery},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}