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Wording   /wˈərdɪŋ/   Listen
noun
Wording  n.  The act or manner of expressing in words; style of expression; phrasing. "It is believed this wording was above his known style."


verb
Word  v. t.  (past & past part. worded; pres. part. wording)  
1.
To express in words; to phrase. "The apology for the king is the same, but worded with greater deference to that great prince."
2.
To ply with words; also, to cause to be by the use of a word or words. (Obs.)
3.
To flatter with words; to cajole. (Obs.)
To word it, to bandy words; to dispute. (Obs.) "To word it with a shrew."


Word  v. i.  To use words, as in discussion; to argue; to dispute. (R.)





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"Wording" Quotes from Famous Books



... beaten de facto if not de jure. They struggled hard for a compromise which would salve their collective conscience. Finally (May) they agreed to enact no new canons without the Kind's authority, and to submit to a commission such of the existing canons as were contravened. The wording of this "Submission of the Clergy," as it is called, does not leave it absolutely clear whether the entire canon law or only a portion was to be subjected to the revision of the commission—which was to consist of thirty-two ...
— England Under the Tudors • Arthur D. Innes
... as he took the slip of paper and tucked it into his shirt pocket. The wording of the note was a bit complicated, but it bore Sautee's signature. It was at least evidence that there had ...
— The Coyote - A Western Story • James Roberts
... The wording was in French, but Jeanette, translating for her benefit, read: "To be opened by my little daughter Jeanette on the event of her twenty-first birthday. ...
— Lucile Triumphant • Elizabeth M. Duffield
... transmitter and medium of all correspondence involving matters of delicate or diplomatic import. If the result be successful, all right. It was written by direction of Colonel So and So, and is presumably his own wording. If it fail, then anybody can see that failure is due solely to the clumsy and ...
— Marion's Faith. • Charles King
... begin to talk business, and finally agreed that Beulah should write her father, wording her letter as carefully as possible, to avoid all direct statements, but showing him that she had made but little headway on the work she had come North to accomplish. Bob was a changed being now; so, too, was Beulah Sands. Both discussed their hopes and fears with a frankness in strange contrast ...
— Friday, the Thirteenth • Thomas W. Lawson


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