• Wordcraft

    Origin

    From word + craft.

    Full definition of wordcraft

    Noun

    wordcraft

    (usually uncountable; plural wordcrafts)
    1. Skill with words; crafty or clever use of words or speech, rhetoric.
      • 2000, Deirdre N. McCloskey, How to be human: though an economist:To identify a piece of speech in finance as rhetoric is not to damn it but to identify it as part of wordcraft.
      • 1990, J. P. Fokkelman, Narrative art and poetry in the books of Samuel: a full :It is the key concept in Jakobson's fundamental recognition of the importance of repetition in wordcraft and occurs in his definition what is literary ...
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