warlockry

Etymology

From warlock + -ry.

warlockry means wizardry; witchcraft. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.

Why this word is great

WARLOCKRY — [Noun] The art or practice of male witchcraft or sorcery. From the Scots and northern English word 'warlock' ("a male witch or sorcerer, one who breaks faith") + the noun-forming suffix '-ry' (denoting art, practice, or condition). Unlike "witchcraft" (a general term, historically shaded toward the feminine) or "wizardry" (which implies a learned, often benign, arcane skill), warlockry is the magic of the faithless, a regional artifact born of broken pacts. It is the grimoire bound in skin and hidden beneath a floorboard, the precise chill of a vow made solely to be forsworn, the sulfurous scent lingering after a shape has vanished from a circle of trampled moss—the deep, solitary craft of one who lives forever in the shadow of a bargain.

noun

Wizardry; witchcraft.