wordcraft

noun

wordcraft

noun

Etymology From word + -craft.

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:

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