Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The quality of being skilful; the possession of skill or ability, in any sense of either word.
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- noun The state or condition of being
skilful .
Etymologies
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Examples
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He was honoured by fine performances from his orchestra and Volkov – joint dedicatees – whose playing added love to skilfulness.
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So he fed them according to the integrity of his heart; and guided them by the skilfulness of his hands.
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Why, when I went courting my wife that is now, the skilfulness that she would show in keeping me on her pretty side as she walked was beyond all belief.
The Woodlanders 2006
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So he fed them according to the integrity of his heart; and guided them by the skilfulness of his hands.
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With the mother at the point of death, and the child delirious, who could testify to this hated convict's skilfulness?
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Animals in harness cannot but be carried over a precipice by the inexperience and badness of their driver, even as by his skilfulness and excellence they will be saved.
ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus 1819-1893 2001
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I am sent by my Father to possess it myself, and to guide it by the skilfulness of my hands into such a conformity to him as shall be pleasing in his sight.
The Holy War 2001
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So he fed them according to the integrity of his heart; and guided them by the skilfulness of his hands.
Psalms 78. 1999
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He congratulated the police on its apparent swiftness and skilfulness in arresting the suspects.
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Without handling anything himself, he can tell skilfulness from unskilfulness; without his own concerns of mind, he can tell good from bad luck.
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