scrivening
9.9
The act of writing or copying documents by hand
- noun
- Archaic
:
escritura
- The official records were kept through careful scrivening by the court clerk.
Examples
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During the workshop, we practiced scrivening letters and legal contracts by hand.
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Heep, whose scrivening constitutes another parody of David's activity as a writer.
Academic text (1990) -
Her scrivening of the ancient texts took many months to complete.
Synonyms
handwriting
vsscrivening
11
1.7
Writing with a pen or pencil instead of typing on a computer
focuses on producing or copying formal documents by hand, not general notes
Antonyms
How Manual
Surface Forms
scrivening singular
scrivenings plural
Morphology
Etymology
The word scrivening comes from an old word scribere that means 'to write' and is the same root as scribe and scribble. So, scrivening can mean the act of writing or copying by hand, which is why it means the process of writing.