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Longhand

noun

Rapid handwriting in which letters are set down in full and are cursively connected within words without lifting the writing implement from the paper. Synonyms: cursive, cursive script, running hand.

adjective

Having words written out in full by hand.

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"Longhand" Quotes from Famous Books

... little ejaculation from Jimmie Dale. From the centre pigeonhole, almost the first paper he had touched, he drew a long, sealed envelope and at a single swift glance had read the inscription upon it, written in longhand: ...

— The Adventures of Jimmie Dale • Frank L. Packard

... dejection that comes to a young man when Ambition has proposed to Fortune, and been emphatically rejected. For six years he had worked persistently and ceaselessly toward a given goal, doing clerical work by day and creative work by night, going from shorthand into longhand, and from numerical figures into figures of speech. For the way that Hinton's soul was traveling was the Inky Way, and at ...

— Mr. Opp • Alice Hegan Rice