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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

WORDING, n.
1. The act of expressing in words.
2. The manner of expressing in words. The wording of the ideas is very judicious.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: the manner in which something is expressed in words; "use concise military verbiage"- G.S.Patton [syn: wording, diction, phrasing, phraseology, choice of words, verbiage]

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 1649 the act or manner of expressing in words ; phraseology

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. 1 a form of words used. 2 the way in which something is expressed.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Wording Word"ing, n. The act or manner of expressing in words; style of expression; phrasing. It is believed this wording was above his known style. --Milton.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Word Word, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Worded; p. pr. & vb. n. Wording.] 1. To express in words; to phrase. The apology for the king is the same, but worded with greater deference to that great prince. --Addison. 2. To ply with words; also, to cause to be by the use of a word or words. [Obs.] --Howell. 3. To flatter with words; to cajole. [Obs.] --Shak. To word it, to bandy words; to dispute. [Obs.] ``To word it with a shrew.'' --L'Estrange.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

The wording of a piece of writing or a speech are the words used in it, especially when these are chosen to have a particular effect. The two sides failed to agree on the wording of a final report... The wording is so vague that no one actually knows what it means. N-UNCOUNT: also a N

Moby Thesaurus

choice of words, composition, dialect, diction, expression, formulation, grammar, idiom, language, locution, mode, parlance, phrase, phraseology, phrasing, rhetoric, speech, style, talk, usage, use of words, usus loquendi, verbalism, verbiage, wordage