"witchmonger" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1584, Reginald Scot, The Discouerie of Witchcraft: Wherein the Lewde Dealing of Witches and Witchmongers is Notablie Detected …",
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          "ref": "2011 June 30, Philip C. Almond, England's First Demonologist: Reginald Scot and 'The Discoverie of Witchcraft', Bloomsbury Publishing",
          "text": "[...] to suggest that they may be interpolations by ‘some fond papist or witchmonger.’ And, on the principle of ‘set a witchmonger to catch a witchmonger’, he cited the French Calvinist demonologist, Lambert Daneau, as a denier of that which ‘S. Augustine and Apuleus doe credibly wryte,’ namely ‘that Sorcerers can chaunge men into other formes[…]’",
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        "One who has dealings with witches."
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        "(uncommon) One who has dealings with witches."
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        "One who has dealings with witches."
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        "(uncommon) One who has dealings with witches."
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