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lawyercraft

lawyercraft noun: the knowledge, training, or work of a lawyer; the exercise of lawyerly functions.

Noun

lawyercraft (uncountable)

  1. The knowledge, training, or work of a lawyer; the exercise of lawyerly functions.
    • It is among the artifices employed by lawyercraft to reconcile the public mind to the sale of indulgences, elsewhere spoken of.1839, Jeremy Bentham, The Works of Jeremy Bentham
    • […] that hereditary humbug, and class usurpation shall give place to popular sovereignty; that the laws shall be few and simple and lawyercraft abolished.2003, Sabine Freitag, Rudolf Muhs, Exiles From European Revolutions

Origin of lawyercraft

From lawyer + -craft.

Questions about lawyercraft

What does lawyercraft mean?
Lawyercraft means the knowledge, training, or work of a lawyer; the exercise of lawyerly functions.
What part of speech is lawyercraft?
Lawyercraft is a noun.

Words near lawyercraft in the dictionary

  1. lawyer's wigs
  2. lawyer-readable
  3. lawyer-speak
  4. lawyerball
  5. lawyerbush
  6. lawyercraft
  7. lawyerdom
  8. lawyered
  9. lawyered up
  10. lawyerese
  11. lawyeress

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