Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The craft of the pen; penmanship; chirography.
- noun The art of composing or writing; authorship.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Penmanship; skill in writing; chirography.
- noun The art of composing or writing; authorship.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
penmanship ;skill inwriting ; the art of writing
Etymologies
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Examples
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She has a fine command of language, and in her conversation or her addresses to assemblies of ladies, one may at once detect the tone and ease of manner of a woman trained to pencraft.
Woman's Work in the Civil War A Record of Heroism, Patriotism, and Patience Mary C. Vaughan
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"Get thee back to thy pencraft, and when it is done come to me at the Fort, I have work for thee."
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'It is scarcely to be expected that one who tries his hand at so many kinds of pencraft should always excel; yet such is the force of DE
The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey—Vol. 1 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg Thomas De Quincey 1822
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Landlord,” and who have, by the candid voice of a numerous crowd of readers, been taught to think that I merit not the empty fame alone, but also the more substantial rewards, of successful pencraft — it would,
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