单词 | prince-craft |
释义 | prince-craftn. rare. The skill or art of a prince or ruler. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > sole rule > [noun] > art or skill of kingcraft1622 prince-craft1741 1741 W. Warburton Divine Legation Moses II. 3 Prince-Craft or Priest-Craft might indeed offer them [sc. these Revelations] for private Ends, but nothing short of a common Reason could dispose Mankind to accept them. 1862 J. R. Macduff Sunsets Hebr. Mount. 105 By consummate art, or rather by unprincipled princecraft, he had undermined his father's throne. 1906 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 12 19 He [sc. Macchiavelli] drew his observations largely from history; but he reflected at least as directly upon his first-hand contact with prince-craft. 1950 A. P. Rossiter Eng. Drama viii. 118 There was also the fairly extensive literature of ‘governorship’ and the doctrines of princecraft. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1741 |
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