autography
Americannoun
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the act of writing by one's own hand.
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autographs collectively.
noun
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the writing of something in one's own handwriting; something handwritten
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the precise reproduction of an illustration or of writing
Etymology
Origin of autography
Example Sentences
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Author Sean Feast, with whom Air Cmdr Mitchell collaborated on his 2009 autography, described him as a "remarkable man".
From BBC • Feb. 11, 2016
His articles on autography and cryptology attracted widespread attention.
From Poets of the South by Painter, F. V. N. (Franklin Verzelius Newton)
One part lay upon the stand, but it was not in Lenhart Davy's autography.
From Charles Auchester, Volume 1 of 2 by Sheppard, Elizabeth
He alternately raised the hair of his readers with master-pieces of unearthly imaginings and diverted them with playful studies in autography and exhibitions of skill in reading secret writing.
From The Dreamer A Romantic Rendering of the Life-Story of Edgar Allan Poe by Stanard, Mary Newton
This gave a full transliteration and translation of one hundred and eleven texts published in autography.
From Babylonian and Assyrian Laws, Contracts and Letters by Johns, C. H. W. (Claude Hermann Walter)
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