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paleographies

paleographies is the plural of paleography.

Meaning of paleography

Noun

paleography (countable and uncountable, plural paleographies)

  1. (US) The study of old or ancient forms of writing.
    • Paleography might teach men to read documents, diplomatics to date them and to test their authenticity; but the full significance of an ancient deed might easily escape the most exact paleographer and the most accomplished diplomatist, for the want of that finished sense for legal technicality...1910, H. A. L. Fisher, Frederick William Maitland, Downing Professor of the Laws of England, Cambridge: University Press
  2. (US) Ancient scripts or forms of writing themselves, as uncial, scriptio continua, or methods of using papyrus scrolls.
  3. (US, obsolete) Paleogeography.

Questions about paleographies

What is paleographies the plural of?
Paleographies is the plural of paleography.

Words near paleographies in the dictionary

  1. paleographer
  2. paleographers
  3. paleographic
  4. paleographical
  5. paleographically
  6. paleographies
  7. paleographist
  8. paleographists
  9. paleographs
  10. paleography
  11. paleogravel

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Adapted from Wiktionary: paleographies (page history and authors); paleography (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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