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penpersonship

penpersonship noun: handwriting.

Noun

penpersonship (uncountable)

  1. Handwriting.
    • The 8- and 9-year-olds answered assignments to define women’s liberation in Mission View and Lewis and Clark grade schools recently. In sometimes painful penpersonship, they scrawled their answers.1977 February 16, “Let women drive diesels, children say”, in The Daily Universe, volume 30, number 106, Provo, Utah, page 8
    • A year later, after spending a week in sixth grade at Alcott, Soil observed: Changes occurred which cannot be calculated by tabulating new test scores or by observing neater penpersonship. It takes more time than that to notice the subtle and remarkable ways in which a child’s mind grows and begins...1979, Donald N. Morris, “Elementary School Programs”, in Schooling for a Global Age, McGraw-Hill Book Company, →ISBN, page 133

Examples of penpersonship in a sentence

  • A year later, after spending a week in sixth grade at Alcott, Soil observed: Changes occurred which cannot be calculated by tabulating new test scores or by observing neater penpersonship.1979, Donald N. Morris, “Elementary School Programs”, in Schooling for a Global Age, McGraw-Hill Book Company, →ISBN, page 133:
  • The worst to date had been the article of absurdity called “The Trek” by the penpersonship of a Shelley Hamilton.1980 November/December, William Coulter, “Feedback”, in In Unity, Los Angeles, Calif.: the Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community...
  • French composition, his mother tells him, is invaluable, since “one always has to write letters.” Antoine, as if to illustrate her claim, mimics her penpersonship in a note of excuse.1985, Robert Stam, Reflexivity in Film and Literature: From Don Quixote to Jean-Luc Godard, Ann Arbor, Mich.: UMI Research Press, →ISBN...
  • Handwriting activities are clearly focused on the improvement of penpersonship.1985 December, Linda A. Meyer, Robert L. Linn, C. Nicholas Hastings, Observation and Coding Manual for the Longitudinal Study of Reading...

Origin of penpersonship

By analogy with penmanship and penwomanship, penperson + -ship.

Questions about penpersonship

What does penpersonship mean?
Penpersonship means handwriting.
How do you use penpersonship in a sentence?
A year later, after spending a week in sixth grade at Alcott, Soil observed: Changes occurred which cannot be calculated by tabulating new test scores or by observing neater penpersonship.
What part of speech is penpersonship?
Penpersonship is a noun.

Words near penpersonship in the dictionary

  1. penpalship
  2. penpalships
  3. Penpergwm
  4. penperson
  5. penpersons
  6. penpersonship
  7. penpoint
  8. penpoints
  9. penpulimab
  10. penpusher
  11. penpushers

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