What does the word warlock mean?

Question

Does that mean an oath breaker can you give an example

or what does it mean

Answer 1

Warlock is a male witch or demon...............

Answer 2

male witch  

Answer 3

Male witch.

Answer 4

Many definitions:

Derogatory term for a Male Witch. It’s original meaning, derived from the Old English “waer logga,” is “oath breaker” and it was used in ...

A male sorcerer who practices black magic, that is to say, who manipulates magical energies granted to him by malevolent entities such as demons. A female sorcerer (sorceress) who does so is a witch. ...

Outdated word for a male witch. Some find the word offensive, pointing to its interpretation as “oath breaker”.

Warlocks are, among historic Christian traditions, said to be the male equivalent of witches (usually in the pejorative sense of Europe's Middle Ages), and were said to ride pitchforks instead of broomsticks which normally witches would ride. ...

Answer 5

according to the websters dictionary its a man who practices black magic!  

Answer 6

A warlock is commonly known as the male form of a witch. ie someone who practises magic. But there are some other explanations as to where the word came from.



It is widely believed to have came from Scottish Late Middle English "wærloga" which means "deceiver" or "oath-breaker". and could have been applied to men living on the outer fringes of society. It was seen as a derogatory term as its root meaning was `traitor, enemy, devil'.

There are several excellent arguments currently at large on the Internet regarding possible alternate origins of the word that trace it back to an Old Norse term for enchanter or sorcerer, "vard-lokkur."

There is another idea that speculates that what we think of as Witchcraft might originally have involved both Male and Female Mysteries, and that much of what we think of as "Wicca" today descends predominantly from the Female Mysteries. The Male Mysteries, on the other hand, would have had more to do with hunting and warfare, and that the "War" in "Warlock" refers to just that - the Way of the Warrior and the arts of "battle-magic," as exemplified by the ulfhednar and berserkers of ancient Norse and Icelandic legends.