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ˈlong-hand, ˈlonghand
Handwriting of the ordinary character (in which words are written in full), as distinguished from shorthand.
1666Pepys Diary 17 Nov., So as I can read it [a shorthand memorandum] to-morrow to Sir W. Coventry, and then come home, and Hewer read it to me while I take it in long-hand. 1712F. I. Shorthand 25 Even in Long-Hand oftentimes equivocal abbreviations are often written. 1864Social Sci. Rev. 224 Many years must necessarily elapse before phonography will entirely supersede the longhand now in use. 1888Times (weekly ed.) 7 Dec. 20/3 Did you take notes in longhand of the speeches?
attrib.1884Law Times 24 May 55/2 There are obvious reasons why a longhand note cannot always be relied upon to contain every material point in the evidence. 1897Westm. Gaz. 22 Jan. 7/1 Sir Isaac Pitman's efforts in the cause of the reform of longhand spelling. |