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Meaning of wiredrawing | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C1

Definitions

gerund of wiredraw: the stretching of words, etc. to suit one's own purposes.

form-of, gerund

Examples

“Out of all that rubbish of Arab idolatries, argumentative theologies, traditions, subtleties, rumours and hypotheses of Greeks and Jews, with their idle wiredrawings, this wild man of the Desert [Muhammad], with his wild sincere heart, earnest as death and life, with his great flashing natural eyesight, had seen into the kernel of the matter.”

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This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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