Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The craft of the author; the exercise of the skill of an author; authorship: as, “the mysteries of author-craft,”

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  • noun The craft of an author; the writing of books.

Etymologies

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author +‎ craft

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Examples

  • London, which despises poverty and authorcraft and all mean adventurers, and bows to the lordly merchant, the mighty financier, Redworth's incarnation of the virtues.

    Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868

  • Diana had often dreamed of the City of London as the seat of magic; and taking the City's contempt for authorcraft and the intangible as, from its point of view, justly founded, she had mixed her dream strangely with an ancient notion of the

    Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868

  • London, which despises poverty and authorcraft and all mean adventurers, and bows to the lordly merchant, the mighty financier, Redworth's incarnation of the virtues.

    Diana of the Crossways — Complete George Meredith 1868

  • Diana had often dreamed of the City of London as the seat of magic; and taking the City's contempt for authorcraft and the intangible as, from its point of view, justly founded, she had mixed her dream strangely with an ancient notion of the City's probity.

    Diana of the Crossways — Complete George Meredith 1868

  • London, which despises poverty and authorcraft and all mean adventurers, and bows to the lordly merchant, the mighty financier, Redworth's incarnation of the virtues.

    Diana of the Crossways — Volume 4 George Meredith 1868

  • City's contempt for authorcraft and the intangible as, from its point of view, justly founded, she had mixed her dream strangely with an ancient notion of the City's probity.

    Diana of the Crossways — Volume 4 George Meredith 1868

  • If a book come from the heart, it will contrive to reach other hearts; all art and authorcraft are of small amount to that.

    Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History Thomas Carlyle 1838

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