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manuscript
[ man-yuh-skript ]
noun
- the original text of an author's work, handwritten or now usually typed, that is submitted to a publisher.
- any text not printed.
- a book or document written before the invention of printing.
- writing, as distinguished from print.
adjective
- handwritten or typed, not professionally printed.
manuscript
/ ˈæʊˌɪ /
noun
- a book or other document written by hand
- the original handwritten or typed version of a book, article, etc, as submitted by an author for publication
- handwriting, as opposed to printing
- ( as modifier )
a manuscript document
Other Word Forms
- u·a adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of manuscript1
Word History and Origins
Origin of manuscript1
Example Sentences
Before entering the church the couple were given a hand-written manuscript of the new piece, The Weather of My Being, by its composer.
He once acquired the manuscript for a cookbook written by a woman who survived the Holocaust and collected recipes while living in a concentration camp.
"As I was leafing through the manuscript, the poem struck me as an odd version of Sonnet 116," the university researcher explained.
But when she had nearly finished, she reread the manuscript and realised there was "so much about mothers and daughters" in it, even though she hadn't been conscious of this while writing.
“My homicide partner and I drove to Sunset Boulevard in Beverly Hills and dropped off the manuscript,” Wambaugh recalled in the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Quarterly.
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