SuaviloquyToday’s word

wording

Wording, n.

The act or manner of expressing in words; style of expression; phrasing. It is believed this wording was above his known style. Milton.

Shades of meaning

Fernald has no entry of its own for wording; he lists it under diction.

Where he writes about it:

Diction is general; wording is limited; we speak of the diction of an author or of a work, the wording of a proposition, of a resolution, etc. — from diction