Synonyms for handwriting


Grammar : Noun
Spell : hand-rahy-ting
Phonetic Transcription : ˈhændˌraɪ tɪŋ

Top 10 synonyms for handwriting Other synonyms for the word handwriting

Définition of handwriting

Origin :
  • c.1500, from hand (n.) + writing, translating Latin manuscriptum. Hand in the sense of "handwriting, style of writing" is from late 14c.
  • An ordinary note in his [Horace Greeley's] handwriting is said to have been used for a long time as a railroad pass, then as a servant's recommendation, and finally taken to a drug-store as a doctor's prescription. ["Frank Leslie's Magazine," August 1884]
  • noun the way a person writes
Example sentences :
  • I can show it to you, if you desire it, in my father's handwriting.
  • Extract from : « Brave and Bold » by Horatio Alger
  • I have seen the letter; it is in Captain Rushton's handwriting.
  • Extract from : « Brave and Bold » by Horatio Alger
  • His handwriting does not run quite as far as the queen's writ in this country yet.
  • Extract from : « In the Midst of Alarms » by Robert Barr
  • His articles had been typewritten and she had never seen his handwriting.
  • Extract from : « Her Father's Daughter » by Gene Stratton-Porter
  • And I saw that the address, scrawled in pencil, was in Anthony's handwriting.
  • Extract from : « It Happened in Egypt » by C. N. Williamson
  • It was his "press" handwriting, plain, rapid, and as legible as print.
  • Extract from : « The Slave Of The Lamp » by Henry Seton Merriman
  • It was not sealed, but pasted close; the handwriting was quite unknown to him.
  • Extract from : « Life And Adventures Of Martin Chuzzlewit » by Charles Dickens
  • But here, in the handwriting of the dead clerk, here was the evidence of that old story.
  • Extract from : « Henry Dunbar » by M. E. Braddon
  • But if Davenport's hands might go unchanged, he decided that his handwriting should not.
  • Extract from : « The Mystery of Murray Davenport » by Robert Neilson Stephens
  • Those things, and—a good memory for handwriting, also postmarks.
  • Extract from : « The Law-Breakers » by Ridgwell Cullum
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