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wordcraft en · NOUN

Etymology

From word + -craft.

Meanings

  1. (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: