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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

... the court—any court—American, English, or the Samoan High. You associated his heavy, bloated, grog-blossomed face, and black-dyed whiskers, as an inevitable part of the course of justice. It was his custom to take longhand notes of all court proceedings, as, of course, stenographers were unknown in Apia; and at times it would seem as though all Samoan justice boiled down to dictating to Dillon. As a witness, you never looked at the judge; you looked at ...

— Wild Justice: Stories of the South Seas • Lloyd Osbourne

... address before going out. It seems that it had to be ready for simultaneous publication in the New York papers. Now the lecture was not written out; it was to be given from notes only. So he had to deliver it in extenso to the reporter, who took it down in shorthand, promising to let him have a longhand copy in good time the next morning. It did not come till the last moment. Glancing at it on his way to the lecture theatre, he discovered to his horror that it was written upon "flimsy," from which ...

— The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley Volume 2 • Leonard Huxley