majuscule

Noun

majuscule (countable and uncountable, plural majuscules)

1. (countable) A capital letter, especially one used in ancient manuscripts.
2. (uncountable) Capital letters.
   • Up to this point, Loveday appeared to be an exceptionally typical undergraduate, in that he wrote in majuscule what his fellows scribbled in lower case.1951, Arthur Calder-Marshall, The Magic of My Youth, R. Hart-Davis, page 111
   • But it is far from impossible that a scribe writing in minuscule should choose majuscule for a correction at this point: for example, if he had written u for n the only way to avoid all misunderstanding might be to indicate the correction with a capital letter.1972, Wiener Studien, H. Böhlaus, →ISBN, page 89