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penmanship
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Word definitions for penmanship in dictionaries
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Penmanship is the technique of writing with the hand using a writing instrument . Today, this is most commonly done with a pen , or pencil , but throughout history has included many different implements . The various generic and formal historical styles ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The art or skill of good handwriting; calligraphy.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1690s, from obsolete penman "copyist, clerk, scrivener" + -ship .
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Penmanship \Pen"man*ship\, n. The use of the pen in writing; the art of writing; style or manner of writing; chirography; as, good or bad penmanship.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ penmanship exercises EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ And those of us with horrible penmanship might even use it for more intimate correspondence. ▪ Clumsiness and poor penmanship may be suggestive of both physiological weaknesses ...
Usage examples of penmanship.
He read scrawled, blotty penmanship: Dear Tretter: This is my last warning.
However, I was delighted to see his dexterity in penmanship, which was undoubtedly very great, and I expressed my satisfaction to Viar, who soon left us to ourselves.
Ibn-al-Bawwab, the Penman, is said to have possessed a skill in penmanship to which no other person ever attained in ancient or modern times.
The unsigned receipt, that Mortimer Gray had included in the music-box, carried the identical penmanship, letter for letter, as the note that Jane Verril had received from Roland Kemfort!
Perhaps Glover was under orders in the Army, and Brooks and Rollins at the Range School as well, to practice their penmanship.
The Dutch illuminators, however, may usually be recognised by the Netherlandish character of the miniatures combined with neat and sometimes rigidly careful penmanship in the scrolls and tendrils and a hardness in the outline of the flowers.
Sections Galileo had composed at different times in different formats now needed to be handwritten page by page in perfect penmanship for publication, with corrections and additions pasted in as necessary.
He stayed up until one in the morning filling them out in his best sixth-grade penmanship, and was down at the mall bright and early the next morning, as soon as the stores opened up, to hand them all in.
A fine example of the floreate charter hand before the so-called reform of penmanship in the thirteenth century.
On the other hand, there were literally reams of symbols and formulae, historical notes and philosophical comment, in a crabbed penmanship absolutely identical with the ancient script of Joseph Curwen, though of undeniably modern dating.
General are the elements of penmanship that come from the method of handwriting learned in school.
Even if she were purposely trying to disguise her penmanship, handwriting analysis was a field she knew nothing about, so would she have believed she could fool the experts, particularly with three pages of evidence?
She had tried to work, but the intricacies of ancient languages, written in an archaic penmanship style, seemed to be beyond her.
Fulgrove was ironing table linens, polishing silver, and writing place cards and gentlemen's envelopes in her flawless penmanship, flattered beyond words when asked to do so.
Foolish penmanship in that invitation from King Vortenbras gave them at least a semilegitimate reason to be there.