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wordcraft

noun

Etymology

From word + -craft.

  1. inherited from *werdʰh₁om✻ — “word”
  2. inherited from *wurdą✻ — “word”
  3. inherited from *word✻
  4. inherited from word
  5. inherited from word
  6. suffixed as wordcraft — “word + -craft”

Definitions

  1. Skill with words

    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 […]
    • To identify a piece of speech in finance as rhetoric is not to damn it but to identify it as part of wordcraft.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for wordcraft. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA