Meanings
- uncountableThe body of activities, skills, techniques, knowledge, and expertise pertinent to (a) particular craft(s).
This artisanship or craftspersonship was the sort of Enlightenment activity extolled by Diderot in the eighteenth century.
2001: Stephen Gudeman, The Anthropology of Economy: Community, Market, and Culture, page 115 (Blackwell Publishing)2 more examples
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.
1935, Arts Magazine, Art Digest Inc., page 140The olive too they say belongs to this pioneeress, and craftspersonship, plus many arts and crafts are this inventress’s.
2007: John Henderson, The Medieval World of Isidore of Seville, page 205 (Cambridge University Press)
Origin
From craftsperson + -ship, on the pattern of craftsmanship.
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