statecrafty
statecrafty adjective: able in statecraft, politically adept.
Adjective
statecrafty (comparative more statecrafty, superlative most statecrafty)
- Able in statecraft, politically adept.
- Should she wed him, acquitted as he had been by the peers and prelates of the crime of which he had been charged, and recommended by these same reverend prelates and statecrafty peers, with her brother at their head, to her earnest and favourable notice, a new dawn might shine upon het gloomy...1851, James Grant, Bothwell: or, The days of Mary queen of Scots, volume 3, page 192
- The trouble was that for a brilliant, warlike and statecrafty nation, there was not enough army, parliament and offices to go around.1931, Donn Byrne (Brian Oswald Donn-Byrne), "Fosterage", in Rivers of Damascus, and Other Stories, published posthumously by The Century Company, page 73.
Forms of statecrafty
| comparative | more statecrafty |
|---|---|
| superlative | most statecrafty |
Origin of statecrafty
From statecraft + -y.
Questions about statecrafty
- What does statecrafty mean?
- Statecrafty means able in statecraft, politically adept.
- What part of speech is statecrafty?
- Statecrafty is an adjective.
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