wiredrawing
English edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
wiredrawing (plural wiredrawings)
- gerund of wiredraw: the stretching of words, etc. to suit one's own purposes.
- 1840 May 8, Thomas Carlyle, “Lecture II. The Hero as Prophet. Mahomet: Islam.”, in On Heroes, Hero-Worship and The Heroic in History, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1840, →OCLC, page 58:
- 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.
Verb edit
wiredrawing
- present participle and gerund of wiredraw