manuscript

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He sees hideous gaps and crudities beyond all power of correction, and for the first time, perhaps, since he learned that his manuscript was accepted, his self-doubts return to him.

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  1. noun A book, document, or other composition written by hand.
  2. noun A typewritten or handwritten version of a book, an article, a document, or other work, especially the author's own copy, prepared and submitted for publication in print.
  3. noun Handwriting.

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  • This manuscript is actually pretty clean; few problems over all.
  • This manuscript is a customs document—it gave them permission to take some kind of Christian relics of Wallachian origin back to Wallachia. —  The Historian
  • As he approached, he saw from the title page that the manuscript was the television printed run-off of The Case of the Rising Tides . —  Death of a Scriptwriter
  • Pinned to the first page of the manuscript was a letter addressed to her. —  TheChristmasBride
  • How long must the patriot and philanthropist sigh for the termination of such driveling and delusion After a labor at my table of about fourteen weeks, the manuscript was all delivered to my printers; and I returned to New York, and took up my abode in my old quarters at 71 Courtland. —  Personal Memoirs Of A Residence Of Thirty Years With The Indian Tribes On The American Frontiers
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  1. From Medieval Latin manūscrīptum, from neuter of manūscrīptus, handwritten : Latin manū, ablative of manus, hand; see man-2 in Indo-European roots + Latin scrīptus, past participle of scrībere, to write; see skrībh- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. = French manuscrit = Spanish manuscrito = Portuguese manuscripto = Italian manoscritto, manuscritto, adjective and n., from Middle Latin manuscriptus, adjective, L. properly as two words, manu scriptus, written by hand, Middle Latin (neuter) manuscriptum, n., a book or paper written by hand; from manu, ablative of manus, hand, + scriptus, past participle of scribere, write: see script. Cf. c'lirograph, of like meaning.
  2. from manuscript, n.
 

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