holograph
holograph — noun
1. A paper document — for example, a last will, a contract, or a personal letter —
A paper document — for example, a last will, a contract, or a personal letter — in which the author’s own handwriting shows that the text was written by hand, not typed or printed.
The court accepted Tara’s holograph will because three witnesses confirmed her handwriting.
legal context: holograph will
The archive contains dozens of holograph letters Leo wrote to his sister during the war.
attributive use: holograph letters
Ada noticed the author’s corrections in the holograph draft of the poem.
A dealer told Ingrid a genuine holograph by that poet sells for ten thousand dollars.
- manuscript
broader term; a manuscript can be handwritten or typed, while a holograph is always handwritten by the author
- autograph
usually refers to a person’s signature or a signed item, not a full document
- holographic will
the precise legal term for a will that is entirely handwritten by the testator
- typescript
a text produced by a typewriter or word processor
- printed document
produced by a printing press or printer, not handwritten
文法句型
a/an + holograph
holograph + noun (e.g. holograph will)
用法筆記
Common in legal and historical contexts. The adjective ‘holographic’ frequently replaces ‘holograph’ in legal phrases such as ‘holographic will’. Do not confuse with ‘hologram’, which refers to a three-dimensional photographic image — ‘holograph’ refers only to handwritten text.