Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The art, skill, style, or manner of handwriting; calligraphy.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The use of the pen in writing; the art of writing.
- n. Manner of writing; hand-writing: as, accomplished penmanship.
Wiktionary
- n. The art or skill of good handwriting; calligraphy.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The use of the pen in writing; the art of writing; style or manner of writing; chirography.
WordNet 3.0
- n. beautiful handwriting
Examples
“After college, and no longer having to take notes, or write anything physically, my penmanship is so shot.”
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“Mike -- I think that penmanship is called the Palmer method, something I don't think they teach anymore.”
“Though his penmanship is relatively readable, I often found myself wishing I could simultaneously see them in basic plain text form.”
“And unlike Severn, who often wrote in a hurried scrawl and crossed his letters, Brown's penmanship is always careful and meticulous.”
“Indeed, penmanship is a superior form of teaching and is necessary to correct defects already acquired and fixed.”
“Too often, penmanship is taught at an age when all the defects have become established, and when the physiological period in which the muscular memory is ready, has been passed.”
“Of course, my penmanship was a lot better then, and I wrote really tiny...”
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“That night Caris got three or four hours 'sleep in the hired parlor of the inn, while Pella and Joanna worked at what Joanna called their penmanship exercises and tried to figure out the tricky business of removing a seal from parchment without cracking it.”
“The penmanship should be a neat, strong hand, very plain and legible, and devoid of all flourish.”
Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889
“For example, do they now acknowledge in the primary curriculum that fair, old-fashioned study called penmanship?”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘penmanship’.
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Writing
graphoanalysis, agraphia, agraphic, anorthography, logagraphia, cipher, code, inscribe, penmanship, cursive, Palmer method, calligraphy and 100 more...
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Gene Wolfe
Please contribute your favorite words from any of Gene Wolfe’s books to this prize-winning list.
In case you come across words in this list which are too commonplace to fit in, please ...gallipot, roost, badelaire, oblesque, execration, dhole, amschaspand, arctother, chalcedony, penitence, asimi, autarch and 839 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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-ship
quality; rank; ability; collective
friendship, kingship, leadership, readership, mothership, censorship, companionship, citizenship, courtship, dictatorship, internship, externship and 7 more...
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Unneutered
These politically incorrect words for people contain the element 'man', 'son', or 'boy'.
parson, person, layman, businessman, clergyman, chairman, cameraman, craftsman, craftsmanship, fireman, fisherman, gunman and 50 more...
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Three is Compoundy.
Words that are made up of three words, be it intended for the meaning, or coincidentally (as in "attendance").
nonetheless, together, insofar, nevertheless, attendance, notwithstanding, hitherto, heretofore, whosoever, inasmuch, benjamin, psychotherapist and 40 more...
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Penmanship
Spencerian method, Palmer method, Platt R. Spencer, cursive, round hand, running hand, handwriting, stylus, pen, vellum, penmanship, script and 86 more...
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words
my words. my mind. my gosh.
try not to enjoy it too much.git, ghoti, sauce, quail, querulous, quarrelsome, reliability, untoward, incongruities, fission, fanatic, apple and 206 more...
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miscellany
preposterous, minimalism, outnumbered, subroutine, malinger, oddity, eccentricity, laughable, oxymoronic, interstellar, winter, heedless and 335 more...
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strausser's Words
utterly, pathetic, awesome, oblivious, neurotic, savour, stipulate, macintosh, passionate, insane, chai, cinnamon and 75 more...
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