wordcraft en · NOUN
Etymology
From word + -craft.
Meanings
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(uncountable) Skill with words; clever use of words or speech, rhetoric.
It is the key concept in Jakobson's fundamental recognition of the importance of repetition in wordcraft […]
1990, J. P. Fokkelman, Narrative art and poetry in the books of Samuel:To identify a piece of speech in finance as rhetoric is not to damn it but to identify it as part of wordcraft.
2000, Deirdre N. McCloskey, How to be human: though an economist: