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artisanship en · NOUN

Etymology

Etymology tree English artisan Proto-Germanic *skapjaną Proto-Germanic *-skapiz Proto-West Germanic *-skapi Old English -sċiepe Middle English -schipe English -ship English artisanship From artisan + -ship.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) The property of being produced by an artisan; the skill or work of an artisan.
   • There may be countless little imperfections or a breathtaking sense of perfection, but either way the almost devotional artisanship imbues common objects with an uncommon gravity, along with the sense of energy, growth and vulnerability that defines real bodies. 2007 August 23, Roberta Smith, “Against Delusion: Robert Gober’s Nuts-and-Bolts Americana”, in New York Times:
   • the crocheted doilies of missionary artisanship and hammered copper plates representing idealized tribal maidens or trumpeting elephants that were African bourgeois taste 1987, Nadine Gordimer, A Sport of Nature, page 203:
   • In the room […] are various tools which belonged to him, models of his own making, and specimens of his own turning in ivory, at which he was an adept: indeed, many of these specimens afford ample proof that he was no mean hand in this branch of artisanship […] 1834, John Barrow, chapter 2, in Excursions in the North of Europe, through Parts of Russia, Finland, Sweden, Denmark and Norway, page 55:
   • Plumbing, the young man announced, and the allied artisanships serve their purposes. 1925, Carl Van Vechten, chapter 1, in Firecrackers, page 12:

Forms

Relateds

artisanal · craftswomanship · craftsmanship · craftspersonship