Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who attaches undue importance to words, or who deals in mere words; one skilled in the use of words; a verbalist.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare One who deals in words, or in mere words; a verbalist.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun archaic One who deals in
words , or in mere words; averbalist .
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Examples
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No, I mean it you are a “wordsman” of the highest level.
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But I mean you meet these people, like Ian out of the Bunnymen, I mean, you know, he used to say to me, "You're no poet, I'm the poet", you know, "You're a wordsman".
FallNews 2000
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And I went, "A wordsman?" you know, what are you talking about, you know?
FallNews 2000
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Whereupon the scientific wordsman, coming after, undertakes to adequately tell what the grand biography is, or amounts to, in three or four lines of dry abstractive statement!
The Vicarious Sacrifice, Grounded in Principles of Universal Obligation. 1802-1876 1871
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A famous author’s blog has a 5-day hurrah for an Oulipian without rival, a facial hair champion, a wordsman so grand no long intro shall dim my post.
GP on Rimbaud : : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007
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A famous author’s blog has a 5-day hurrah for an Oulipian without rival, a facial hair champion, a wordsman so grand no long intro shall dim my post.
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