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Definition of Statecraft

1. Noun. Wisdom in the management of public affairs.

Definition of Statecraft

1. n. The art of conducting state affairs; state management; statesmanship.

Definition of Statecraft

1. Noun. The skills of being a statesman, of leading a country well. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Statecraft

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Statecraft

Literary usage of Statecraft

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Arms and Industry: A Study of the Foundations of International Polity by Norman Angell (1914)
"Yet, apart from the fact—more emphasized in the German school of statecraft than our own—that war is inevitably part of policy, and that its conduct, even, ..."

2. The Poetical Works of John Dryden by John Dryden (1909)
"Whom with statecraft, (to int'rest only On various sects, by common guilt made friends, true,) You now accuse of ills contriv'd by you. ..."

3. The Rebellion Record: A Diary of American Events, with Documents, Narratives by Frank Moore, Edward Everett (1862)
"... and strength destroyed For brotherhoods broken in sunder, And statecraft quite made void ! Alas ! for America's glory 1 Told as a dream of the night ! ..."

4. China Under the Empress Dowager: Being the History of the Life and Times of by John Otway Percy Bland, Edmund Backhouse (1912)
"... ON TZU HSI'S statecraft YUAN CH'ANG and Hsu Ch'ing-ch'eng were not alone in warning Her Majesty of the danger and folly of her Boxer proclivities. ..."

5. The Confederation of Europe: A Study of the European Alliance, 1813-1823, as by Walter Alison Phillips (1920)
"... German political morality a survival—The eighteenth century and the Reason of State—The State and statecraft—Influence of Machiavelli—The Revolution and ..."

6. Ordeal by Battle by Frederick Scott Oliver (1915)
"CHAPTER V THE statecraft OP A PRIESTHOOD THE thoroughness and efficiency of the Germans are PART n. admitted even by hostile critics. ..."

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