Meaning & use
scriveners
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People employed to write or copy documents by hand, especially in earlier times, or notaries who draft legal papers.
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Medieval scriveners painstakingly copied manuscripts before the printing press existed.
The scriveners in the counting house recorded every transaction in neat columns.
A note on using this word
The profession largely disappeared with the rise of printing and typewriters, but the term survives in the legal phrase 'scrivener's error.'
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scribescopyists
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