Definition of warlock
1**:** a man practicing the black arts : — compare [WITCH]
If you select female you are a Witch, not a Warlock, just saying.
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I thought defining a warlock as a male witch was something cooked up for the show “Bewitched” in the '60s.
That aside, the word has such a goofy etymological history, this always becomes a bit of a splitting hairs discussion.
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Okay but I’m still gonna call my Human Female character a Warlock.
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well blizzard had a foresight on the witch part
with the warlock class
Nah, not in WoW. Witches are those things in Drustvar. Warlocks are demon enslaving, fel users.
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Female monks should be called nuns, too.
Edit: By OP’s logic, at least.
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Nah, I’m a warlock. Just sayin’.
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I mean in the D&D sense of the word, which is obviously not the same thing as the classic, mythological Warlock, it’s just someone who makes a pact with an otherworldly being for their power, typically something utterly alien and dangerous, unlike a Cleric which makes a deal with a God.
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A female priest is a priestess.
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I feel like a class ability to fly with the correct head gear would be fitting for a nun class.
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who attacks nuns lol
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I mean a female priest would just be a Nun wouldn’t they?
A female Dan is a Danielle.
Not sure where I’m going with this.
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It wouldn’t take spaghetti code to hot fix this today.
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Dan-gerous territory.
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This reminds me of a old thread way, way back in the day where some guy came up with the female equivalents for classes that should be used in WoW. If I remember correctly, “Battlemaiden” was a female paladin and “shawoman” was a female shaman. Yes, the post was a joke, though a lot of people took it seriously.
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In Wiccan circles, both male and female practitioners of witchcraft are called witches.
As for warlock … " Old English wǣrloga ‘traitor, scoundrel, monster’, also ‘the Devil’, from wǣr ‘covenant’ + an element related to lēogan ‘belie, deny’. From its application to the Devil, the word was transferred in Middle English to a person in league with the Devil, and hence a sorcerer."
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It’s ok, I already made my female undead warlock a male when gender swaps became free.
Better casting animations. 
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Salem’s populace definitely called men witches during the Witch Trials if I recall right.
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Piddy’s no witch. Call her a witch and she’ll drop an Infernal on your head vs turning you into a newt.
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