Wiredrawing
noun, verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 gerund of wiredraw: the stretching of words, etc. to suit one's own purposes. form-of, gerund
"Out of all that rubbish of Arab idolatries, argumentative theologies, traditions, subtleties, rumours and hypotheses of Greeks and Jews, with their idle wiredrawings, this wild man of the Desert [Muhammad], with his wild sincere heart, earnest as death and life, with his great flashing natural eyesight, had seen into the kernel of the matter."
- 1 present participle and gerund of wiredraw form-of, gerund, participle, present
Example
More examples"Out of all that rubbish of Arab idolatries, argumentative theologies, traditions, subtleties, rumours and hypotheses of Greeks and Jews, with their idle wiredrawings, this wild man of the Desert [Muhammad], with his wild sincere heart, earnest as death and life, with his great flashing natural eyesight, had seen into the kernel of the matter."
Etymology
From wiredraw + -ing.
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