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handwriting

[ hand-rahy-ting ]

noun

  1. writing done with a pen or pencil in the hand; script.
  2. a style or manner of writing by hand, especially that which characterizes a particular person; penmanship:

    an eccentric handwriting.

  3. a handwritten document; manuscript.


handwriting

/ ˈhændˌraɪtɪŋ /

noun

  1. writing by hand rather than by typing or printing
  2. a person's characteristic writing style

    that signature is in my handwriting



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Word History and Origins

Origin of handwriting1

1375–1425; late Middle English hand writyng; hand + writing

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Idioms and Phrases

Idioms
  1. handwriting on the wall, a premonition, portent, or clear indication, especially of failure or disaster: Also writing on the wall.

    The company had ignored the handwriting on the wall and was plunged into bankruptcy.

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Example Sentences

He sort of saw the handwriting on the wall, that it was going to be the end of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War.

You might say that this is part of my side of the story… Please excuse my handwriting, punctuation, and spelling.

On Feb 1,2014 Neubauer was summoned by OSI and forced to provide a handwriting sample.

In the hospital the state of his handwriting was terrible, he says, but he “scribbled” much of Inside a Pearl while in hospital.

Illegible handwriting and typos lead to errors and duplicate entries.

It possessed the greatest interest and attraction for Edna; the envelope, its size and shape, the post-mark, the handwriting.

Baltasar's profane banquet: his sentence is denounced by a handwriting on the wall, which Daniel reads and interprets.

He had been ailing for several weeks; as his son had remarked, his handwriting had been the first symptom of the breakdown.

No, but that handwriting,—I could not mistake it: the small, clear chirography is undoubtedly Nold's.

Written in a pretty hand it was—handwriting befitting a dum fine-lookin' girl like that!

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