Past tense of 'handwrite,' meaning someone wrote something by hand in the past.
Compound past tense of 'handwrite' (hand + wrote), formed as writers sought to distinguish manual writing from typewritten text in the early 20th century.
Most English speakers would say 'wrote by hand' rather than 'handwrote'—this word exists but sounds formal or slightly wrong because we haven't fully adopted the 'handwrite' family into casual speech.
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