manuduction means the act of guiding or a means of guidance; direction, guidance, instruction. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.
Why “manuduction” is a great word
MANUDUCTION — [Noun] The act of guiding or a means of guidance, especially by the hand or through personal instruction. From Late Latin manuductio, from Latin manus ("hand") + ductio ("leading, guidance"). Unlike "direction," which charts an impersonal course, or "instruction," which imparts detached knowledge, manuduction is the intimate, often tactile, shepherding of one by another. It is the steadying hand on a child’s first bicycle, the master’s fingers positioned over an apprentice’s on the chisel, and the gentle pressure leading a mourner from a graveside—a fragile covenant against the solitude of experience, pulled forward by another’s offered hand.
Etymology
From Late Latin manuductio, from (ablative singular form of) Latin manus (“hand”) + ductiō (“leading”).
noun
- The act of guiding or a means of guidance; direction, guidance, instruction.“We hope it will not be unconsidered, that we finde no open tract, or constant manuduction in this Labyrinth; but are oft-times fain to wander in the America and untravelled parts of Truth.”