Antonyms for penned


Grammar : Verb
Spell : pen
Phonetic Transcription : pɛn


Definition of penned

Origin :
  • "writing implement," late 13c., from Old French pene "quill pen; feather" (12c.) and directly from Latin penna "a feather, plume," in plural "a wing," in Late Latin, "a pen for writing," from Old Latin petna, pesna, from PIE *pet-na-, suffixed form of root *pet- "to rush; to fly" (see petition (n.)).
  • Latin penna and pinna "a feather, plume;" in plural "a wing;" also "a pinnacle; battlement" (see pin (n.)) are treated as identical in Watkins, etc., but regarded as separate (but confused) Latin words by Tucker and others, who derive pinna from PIE *spei- "sharp point" (cf. spike (n.1)) and see the "feather/wing" sense as secondary.
  • In later French, this word means only "long feather of a bird," while the equivalent of English plume is used for "writing implement," the senses of the two words thus are reversed from the situation in English. Pen-and-ink (adj.) is attested from 1670s. Pen name is recorded from mid-19c.
  • verb enclose
  • verb write
Example sentences :
  • And all the while those who write in the book of fate had penned the last decree.
  • Extract from : « Roden's Corner » by Henry Seton Merriman
  • They penned me up here with these saintly mothers and these angelic children.
  • Extract from : « City of Endless Night » by Milo Hastings
  • Truly they were penned by wisdom itself; none but God could have done the like.
  • Extract from : « Selections from the Table Talk of Martin Luther » by Martin Luther
  • Not even from Valentina could he hope for mercy, so incriminating was the note he had penned.
  • Extract from : « Love-at-Arms » by Raphael Sabatini
  • He turned to the last paragraph he had penned and re-read it.
  • Extract from : « Tony Butler » by Charles James Lever
  • The Major promised to send his servant over with the reply, which I penned at once.
  • Extract from : « Jack Hinton » by Charles James Lever
  • His first letters from the East were penned at Harper's Ferry.
  • Extract from : « Charles Carleton Coffin » by William Elliot Griffis, D. D.
  • More, the four lines comprising it had been penned, not typed.
  • Extract from : « Marjorie Dean, College Sophomore » by Pauline Lester
  • It seems to have been at this point of time that the letter was penned.
  • Extract from : « Henry of Monmouth, Volume 1 » by J. Endell Tyler
  • You just can't keep 'em penned in, and you can't keep 'em barred out.
  • Extract from : « David Lannarck, Midget » by George S. Harney

Synonyms for penned

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