statecrafty

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1. rareAble in statecraft, politically adept.

   1931, Donn Byrne (Brian Oswald Donn-Byrne), "Fosterage", in Rivers of Damascus, and Other Stories, published posthumously by The Century Company, page 73. The trouble was that for a brilliant, warlike and statecrafty nation, there was not enough army, parliament and offices to go around.

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   Should she wed him, acquitted as he had been by the peers and prelates of the crime of which he had been charged, and recommended by these same reverend prelates and statecrafty peers, with her brother at their head, to her earnest and favourable notice, a new dawn might shine upon het gloomy fortune.

   1851, James Grant, Bothwell: or, The days of Mary queen of Scots, volume 3, page 192