| 单词 | wordcraft |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswordcraft wordcraft n. the art of using words; literary or oratorical skill. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > [noun] > sense of language > art of using words rhetoricc1330 wordcraft1804 wordsmanship1917 OE Cynewulf Elene 592 He is for eorðan æðeles cynnes, wordcræftes wis ond witgan sunu, bald on meðle. 1804 J. Collins Scripscrapologia A 3 A Noviciate in the Science of Word-craft. 1894 Athenæum 22 Dec. 863/2 The French school of literary critics of life..have been curious in their wordcraft. 1932 R. M. Lovett & H. S. Hughes Hist. Novel in Eng. xv. 444 All [these books] display his erudition, his word-craft, and to some extent partake of the fantastic strain. 2000 Heritage Feb. 38/3 His poetic works perhaps offer the best view of this outstanding wordcraft, unencumbered by the constraints of plot and performance. < as lemmas |
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