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uncial - use in sentences
Adjective modifier
- late: Some of the later uncials, however, contain earlier texts to a greater or less degree; and these deserve a separate mention.
- Greek: This manuscript was written in the fourth century, and is consequently as old as the oldest Greek uncials of the Bible.
- old: Dean Burgon knew what these old ancient Uncials were.
- sloping: The handwriting, as shewn in the specimen, exhibits the sloping uncials which are characteristic of the eighth and ninth centuries.
- leading: One of the best minuscules of the Acts, ranking in quality with the leading uncials.
Modifies a noun
- manuscript: There are few, if any, divisions between words in uncial manuscripts and no punctuation to speak of.
- hand: This is a most valuable copy of the Prophets, written in Egypt in the sixth century, in a fine bold uncial hand.
- font: Gaelic uncial I find it useful to classify uncial fonts on a three-point scale of ornateness.
- script: The text is written in an uncial script - a luxury script using large, rounded letterforms.
- style: The result is a well-balanced script that is both easier to read, and quicker to write, than the older Uncial style.
- letter: Uncial letters formal book scripts - were widely used from the fifth to the eighth centuries.
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