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hand-written

handwritten \handwritten\, hand-written \hand-written\adj. written by hand.

Syn: handwritten.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
hand-written

also handwritten, 1745, from hand (n.) + written. As a verb, hand-write is recorded from 1878, probably a back-formation.\n\n

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hand-written

a. (alternative spelling of handwritten English)

Usage examples of "hand-written".

The only family relics he had inherited and still owned were the collection of leatherbound family journals, the laboriously hand-written records of his ancestors from the arrival of his great-great-grandfather in Africa over a hundred years before.

Yet those battered old leatherbound, hand-written texts had been the greater treasure.

Yet those battered old leather bound, hand-written texts had been the greater treasurer Reading them had given Craig a sense of history and a pride in his ancestral line, which had armed him with sufficient confidence and understanding of period to sit down and write the book, which had in turn brought him all this: achievement, fame and fortune, even Rholands itself had come back to him through that box of old papers.

His delivery took twenty minutes, during which he managed to consume the two sandwiches and a goodly portion of his cole slaw and spill coffee on his hand-written notes.

The first was hand-written on a notelet with a picture of a badger on the front.

But the interview was curling with age faster than Victor's first rejection slip (also prominently displayed: it was from the New Yorker and had the distinction of sporting an actual, human, hand-written note of comment scrawled in the margin, viz.