different between verbalist vs wordsman

English

Etymology

verbal +? -ist.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?v??b(?)l?st/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?v?b?list/
• Hyphenation: ver?bal?ist

Noun

verbalist (plural verbalists)

1. One who possesses verbal or oratorical skill.
2. One who favours words or the wording of something over its meaning or the idea behind it.

Synonyms

• (one who favors words or the wording of something over its meaning): wordster

Derived terms

• verbalistic

Translations

English

Etymology

words +? -man

Noun

wordsman (plural wordsmen)

1. A man who is a wordsmith.
2. (archaic) One who deals in words, or in mere words; a verbalist.
   • 1858, Horace Bushnell, Nature and the Supernatural

     Nor does it make any the least difference, except with some speculative wordsman, grubbing under space and time, whether death and prey and other like consequences of sin began to work, before the arrival here of man, or only after.

Synonyms

• wordman
• wordsmith

Derived terms

• wordsmanship

Anagrams

• sandworm, swordman