handwriting

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A handwritten list of Anglican bishops of England, probably copied from a 17th-century book called Angliæ Notitia, or The Present State of England

handwriting ‎(usually uncountable, plural handwritings)

The act or process of writing done with the hand, rather than typed or word-processed.
The characteristic writing of a particular person.
- 1895, F. Marion Crawford, Taquisara^[1]:
  It was still early in the morning when Elettra brought her a letter, bearing the postmark of the city, and addressed in one of those small, clear handwritings which seem naturally to belong to scholars and students.
- 1893, Joseph B. Lightfoot, Essays on "Supernatural Religion"^[2]:
  In some handwritings of the seventh or eighth century, where the letters have a round form, the substitution of OT for EG would be far from difficult.
- 1914, P. S. Allen, The Age of Erasmus^[3]:
  Great libraries are only just beginning to gather up the manuscript minutiae which their books contain; to identify handwritings; to decipher monograms; to collect facts.
Text that was written by hand.

act or process of writing with the hand

characteristic writing of a particular person

Arabic: خَطّ يَد m ‎(ḵaṭṭ yad), خَطّ m ‎(ḵaṭṭ)
Armenian: ձեռագիր (hy) ‎(jeṙagir)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 筆跡 (zh), 笔迹 (zh) ‎(bǐjì)
Danish: håndskrift c
Dutch: handschrift (nl) n
Finnish: käsiala (fi)
German: Handschrift (de) f
Greek: γραφή (el) f ‎(grafí), γράψιμο (el) n ‎(grápsimo), γραφικός χαρακτήρας m ‎(grafikós charaktíras)
Italian: calligrafia f
Japanese: 筆跡 ‎(ひっせき, hisseki)

text written by hand

handwriting