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/wˈərkmənʃˌɪp/ Listen

noun

Workmanship n.

The art or skill of a workman; the execution or manner of making anything. "Due reward For her praiseworthy workmanship to yield." "Beauty is nature's brag, and must be shown... Where most may wonder at the workmanship."

That which is effected, made, or produced; manufacture, something made by manual labor. "Not any skilled in workmanship embossed." "By how much Adam exceeded all men in perfection, by being the immediate workmanship of God."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Workmanship" Quotes from Famous Books

... Fair in Chicago, a few friends presented her with a beautiful silver cup, bearing a suitable inscription in Latin, and during the same fair, she received as a gift a Roman bell of green bronze, or verd antique, of rare workmanship, and value, as ...

— Woman's Work in the Civil War - A Record of Heroism, Patriotism, and Patience • Linus Pierpont Brockett

... ago, and as sound and firm as a drum's head—common binding too, be it observed—as the modern cover is flabby and washy. Pray, sir, raise a voice against this wretched material, for that is the thing in fault, not the workmanship; and if more must be paid for undoctored outsides, let ...

— Notes & Queries, No. 50. Saturday, October 12, 1850 • Various

... illness, and as she turned her heavy footsteps toward the Hat Ranch the memory of that loving lie brought the laggard tears at last, and she wept aloud. In her agony she was conscious of a feeling of gratitude to the Almighty for His perfect workmanship in fashioning a man who was not one of ...

— The Long Chance • Peter B. Kyne

... however, must be added, for the benefit of all of whom it may concern:—The good man to whom we owe fables and stories of sempiternal authority only used his tool on them, having taken his material from others; but the workmanship expended on these little figures has given them a high value; and although he was, like M. Louis Ariosto, vituperated for thinking of idle pranks and trifles, there is a certain insect engraved by him which has since become a monument of perennity more assured than that of the most solidly ...

— Droll Stories, Complete - Collected From The Abbeys Of Touraine • Honore de Balzac

... be considered—their vast variety and admirable workmanship. Of this we retain proof by the marble masks which represented them; but to this in the real mask we must add the thinness of the substance and the exquisite fitting on to the head of the actor; so that not only were the very eyes painted with a single opening left for ...

— Literary Remains, Vol. 2 • Coleridge

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