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What is the name of the cursive handwriting style, developed from the 14th-century Greek-influenced script, that gradually replaced the older angular liturgical hand for everyday secular writing?

Skoropis (скоропись) emerged in the 14th–15th centuries as a faster alternative to the formal ustav and poluustav scripts and was used in state documents through the 18th century.

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