craftspersonship
English
Etymology
craftsperson + -ship, on the pattern of craftsmanship.
Pronunciation
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Noun
craftspersonship (uncountable)
- The body of activities, skills, techniques, knowledge, and expertise pertinent to (a) particular craft(s).
- 1935: Arts Magazine, page 140 (Art Digest Inc.)
- The carpenter’s role – like that of a story told 1900 years earlier – is not to craft, for in his craftspersonship he is faulty, but to comprehend.
- 2001: Stephen Gudeman, The Anthropology of Economy: Community, Market, and Culture, page 115 (Blackwell Publishing)
- This artisanship or craftspersonship was the sort of Enlightenment activity extolled by Diderot in the eighteenth century.
- 2007: John Henderson, The Medieval World of Isidore of Seville, page 205 (Cambridge University Press)
- The olive too they say belongs to this pioneeress, and craftspersonship, plus many arts and crafts are this inventress’s.
- 1935: Arts Magazine, page 140 (Art Digest Inc.)
Usage notes
- Some modern authors prefer the epicene term craftspersonship to the feminine craftswomanship and the masculine (though traditionally considered gender-nonspecific) craftsmanship; nevertheless, in common usage, craftsmanship is thousands of times more common than craftspersonship.[1]