sagecraft
English
Etymology
sage + -craft
Noun
sagecraft (uncountable)
- The skill of a sage.
- 1997, Don B. Kates, Gary Kleck, The Great American Gun Debate (page 123)
- Medical and public health discussion of firearms issues have consistently exemplified "sagecraft" in the Znanieckian concept of partisan academic "sages" inventing, selecting, or misinterpreting data to validate preordained conclusions.
- 2010, Tom Foster, Strength and Honor, page 425:
- At that time he had come to wonder just why she wished so badly to serve as a mere aide when according to all her instructors she had excelled in the art of sagecraft.
- 1997, Don B. Kates, Gary Kleck, The Great American Gun Debate (page 123)