autography

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Etymology

From auto- +‎ -graphy.

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Noun

autography (countable and uncountable, plural autographies)

  1. Writing in one's own handwriting.
  2. A process in lithography by which a writing or drawing is transferred from paper to stone.
  3. (countable, rare) An autobiography.
    • 2005, Addison Wiggin, The Demise of the Dollar...: And Why It's Even Better for Your Investments, Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, published 2008, →ISBN, page unknown:
      In his autography, The Age of Turbulence, released by Penguin Press in September 2007—ironically, a few days before the second rate cut of the year—Greenspan says he thought it was wrong to increase scrutiny of subprime mortgages.

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