mastery
Use Mastery in a sentence
tə noun, plural mas·ter·ies for 1-4.
1.
command or grasp, as of a subject: a mastery of Italian.
2.
superiority or victory: mastery over one's enemies.
3.
the act of mastering.
4.
expert skill or knowledge.
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So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a fool or simpleton; ninny. |
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| —n , pl -teries | |
| 1. | full command or understanding of a subject |
| 2. | outstanding skill; expertise |
| 3. | the power of command; control |
| 4. | victory or superiority |
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Word Origin & History
mastery
early 13c., mesterie, "condition of being a master," also "superiority, victory;" from O.Fr. maistrie, from maistre (see master). Meaning "intellectual command" (of a topic, etc.) is from 1660s.
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Example sentences
Nor does this command of minute detail in any sense bar the way to an equal mastery of broad, general effects.
The road and the stream were battling for mastery, and the stream had the better of it.
Neither his grip upon his subject nor his technical mastery yet avail to make these felt otherwise than as digressions.
At no stage in the last three years have they demonstrate a mastery of events.
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