What does "wordcraft" mean?

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

What is a synonym for "wordcraft"?

Common synonyms include: rhetoric, demagoguery, elocution, eloquence, forensics, lecturing.

noun

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Noun

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Skill with words; clever use of words or speech, rhetoric. uncountable
"It is the key concept in Jakobson's fundamental recognition of the importance of repetition in wordcraft […]"

"It is the key concept in Jakobson's fundamental recognition of the importance of repetition in wordcraft […]"

From word + -craft.

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