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Noun- The business of writing or of a writer.

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Usage examples (4)
  • 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...
  • '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
  • 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,...
  • "But what about my pencraft?
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