lawyercraft

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noun

The knowledge, training, or work of a lawyer; the exercise of lawyerly functions.

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Meanings

nounlawyercraft (uncountable)
  1. uncountableThe knowledge, training, or work of a lawyer; the exercise of lawyerly functions.

    It is among the artifices employed by lawyercraft to reconcile the public mind to the sale of indulgences, elsewhere spoken of.

    1839, Jeremy Bentham, The Works of Jeremy Bentham
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    […] that hereditary humbug, and class usurpation shall give place to popular sovereignty; that the laws shall be few and simple and lawyercraft abolished.

    2003, Sabine Freitag, Rudolf Muhs, Exiles From European Revolutions

Origin

From lawyer + -craft.

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APA

lawyercraft. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/lawyercraft

MLA

“lawyercraft.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/lawyercraft. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “lawyercraft,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/lawyercraft.

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