Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The qualifications or employments of a statesman; political skill, in the higher sense.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The qualifications, duties, or employments of a statesman.
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- noun The craft or skill of being a
statesman , of leading a government well.
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- noun wisdom in the management of public affairs
Etymologies
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Examples
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The statesmanship of 1850 (profound and patriotic, as alas! it is to be feared, too much of what we call statesmanship to-day is not) has been outgrown.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 3, September 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various
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We know too little of such matters to dogmatize about them; after all the experience and wisdom of the past, what we call statesmanship is but a complicated, difficult, and uncertain experiment.
Our Brother in Black: His Freedom and His Future Atticus Greene 1881
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But, of course, diplomacy and statesmanship is something Republicans wouldn't know anything about.
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“The supreme function of statesmanship is to provide against preventable evils.”
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“The supreme function of statesmanship is to provide against preventable evils.”
Sen. Barbara Boxer Wants You To Know She’s Not Insecure, Unlike All You Losers Out There 2006
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The supreme function of statesmanship is to provide against preventable evils.
Could Someone Please Explain This To Me ? Laban 2006
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“The supreme function of statesmanship is to provide against preventable evils.”
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“The supreme function of statesmanship is to provide against preventable evils.”
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As an exercise in statesmanship, perhaps Powell could, with the benefit of hindsight, revise the text of his speech to reflect what was supportable sustantively and present the revised speech to the American public so that the public could determine whether it would be appropriate for him to resign.
Balkinization 2004
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Since that remote day Gladstone has been four times Premier; has delivered numberless speeches of the highest order of excellence; has published a multitude of pamphlets and volumes which attest consummate intellectual gifts, and has been a great force in English statesmanship and scholarship through an exceptionally long life and almost to the very close of it.
The Grand Old Man Cook, Richard B 1989
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