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wordcraft

wordcraft noun: skill with words; clever use of words or speech, rhetoric.

Noun

wordcraft (uncountable)

  1. 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

Origin of wordcraft

From word + -craft.

Questions about wordcraft

What does wordcraft mean?
Wordcraft means skill with words; clever use of words or speech, rhetoric.
What part of speech is wordcraft?
Wordcraft is a noun.

Words near wordcraft in the dictionary

  1. wordclock
  2. wordcloud
  3. wordclouds
  4. wordcount
  5. wordcounts
  6. wordcraft
  7. worde
  8. worded
  9. worded it
  10. worded up
  11. Worden

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