ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Wordcraft

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Wordcraft is a noun meaning Skill with words; clever use of words or speech, rhetoric.

Meaning

Skill with words; clever use of words or speech, rhetoric.

Example Sentences

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.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include wordsmanship, oratory, craft, craftiness, facility, cunning.

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