Definition of Statesmanship

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

Exact synonyms: Diplomacy, Statecraft
Generic synonyms: Wisdom, Wiseness
Derivative terms: Statesman

Definition of Statesmanship

1. n. The qualifications, duties, or employments of a statesman.

Definition of Statesmanship

1. Noun. The craft or skill of being a statesman, of leading a government well. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Statesmanship

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Statesmanship

statemongers
stateprison
stateprisons
stater
stateroom
staterooms
staters
states
states' rights
states of affairs
states of mind
stateside
statesman
statesmanlike
statesmanly
statesmanship (current term)
statesmanships
statesmen
statespeople
statesperson
statespersons
stateswoman
stateswomen
statewide
stathead
statheads
stathmin
stathmograph
stathmographs
static

Literary usage of Statesmanship

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

1. Impressions of Theodore Roosevelt by Lawrence Fraser Abbott (1919)
"CHAPTER IV statesmanship THEORETICALLY, the words "statesmanship" and ... The Century Dictionary adds to its first definition of "statesmanship" that it is: ..."

2. The Politics of Industry: A Foot-note to the Social Unrest by Glenn Frank (1919)
"... BUSINESS statesmanship Decentralizing statesmanship—Political policemen vs. Business statesmen—Conservatives and radicals join forces against political ..."

3. The Arena by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1906)
"DEMOCRACY'S CALL TO THE statesmanship OF TO-DAY. A CONVERSATION WITH EDWIN MARKHAM. BY BO FLOWER. WE WERE seated in one of the great hostelries of New York ..."

4. The Lost Cause Regained by Edward Alfred Pollard (1868)
"statesmanship OF THE SOUTH. A question at the front of the Historical ... confidence—The Emancipation Proclamation not an act of statesmanship—The two ..."

5. The Lost Cause Regained by Edward Alfred Pollard (1868)
"statesmanship OF THE SOUTH. A question at the front of the Historical ... confidence—The Emancipation Proclamation not an act of statesmanship—The two ..."

6. Recollections of President Lincoln and His Administration by Lucius Eugene Chittenden (1891)
"statesmanship OF MR. SEWARD. IT has been stated already that no attempt would be made to arrange these notes as a connected history or in chronological ..."

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