secretary hand
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.82 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "It is written in three different Secretary hands: the first finishing at stanza 9 but with stanzas unnumbered,[…]."
- "When Mercy Harvey advised the nobleman to imitate her handwriting, she specified that he should write the address on the outside of the letter in "a small raggid secretary hand.""
- "There are five scribes, all using variations on Secretary hands consistent with the third quarter of the fifteenth century."
- "While originating at the end of the medieval period, the secretary hand was not widely employed until the early modern period, by which time it had completely displaced the earlier court hands."
- "Most authors, including dramatists, used both a separate secretary and an italic hand; in many cases the secretary hand was used for composing (that is, cursive or fluent) writing and italic for more formal copying."