blackletter

Noun

Meaning

blackletter (countable and uncountable, plural blackletters)

Alternative spelling of black letter

Examples

For the rational study of the law the blackletter man may be the man of the present, but the man of the future is the man of statistics and the master of economics. Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Also includes runically unrelated blackletter writing style and pigpen cipher. Source: Internet

For example, "sinfulness" would be rendered as "ſinfulneſſ" in all medieval hands, and later it was "ſinfulneſs" in some blackletter hands and in print. Source: Internet

In print, German used to be prevalently set in blackletter typefaces (e. Source: Internet

It is also not always apparent which letters are capitalized owing to the Gothic or blackletter typeface which was used to print the Bible. Source: Internet

Kurtz, Harold (1970) 76 It was largely thanks to Wilhelm's influence that most printed material in Germany used blackletter instead of the Roman type used in the rest of Western Europe. Source: Internet

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