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penman
noun 3name 1
Collocations
2PENMAN + NOUN
latter's
PREP.
into
Definitions
noun
1
A scribe, or a person who copies texts.
2
A person with writing skills; a journalist or other author.
[T]he holy Pen-men of the Nevv Teſtament ſeem to have borrovv'd and apply'd it [the word mystery] to ſome of the Great and Arduous Truths of Chriſtianity, ſuch as human Reaſon cannot give a clear and explicit Account of.
Well, I often wish I were a penman; but I never could do it. I’ll read any day as long as you like, but that writing, I could never manage.
3
A forger.
Forgers, counterfeiters (penmen) and other such intellectuals have a certain standing in the underworld and even pickpockets are respected more or less as the masters of a difficult art, but they do not rank with the princes of the big con […]
name
1
A surname.
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[T]he holy Pen-men of the Nevv Teſtament ſeem to have borrovv'd and apply'd it [the word mystery] to ſome of the Great and Arduous Truths of Chriſtianity, ſuch as human Reaſon cannot give a clear and
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Well, I often wish I were a penman; but I never could do it. I’ll read any day as long as you like, but that writing, I could never manage.
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You have a very bad opinion indeed of the present state of Literature and of literary men, if you fancy that any one of us would hesitate to stick a knife into his neighbour penman, if the latter's de
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