(of a piece of writing) copied exactly from beginning to end.
an outright line-for-line forgery with a faked signature
Example sentencesExamples
He could recount line for line the speech where Scofield, as More, listens to a young man explain how he would be all too willing to break every law of man in order to reach the Devil himself.
He takes pains to clarify a strange word or difficult passage, while still maintaining a fidelity to the original, translating line for line and straying only when stricter English syntax makes reversed clauses more desirable.
For those who haven't read it, here's a translation, line for line.
We know you can probably quote most of it line-for-line but that's half the fun isn't it?
His admirable intention was to produce a few pages which would coincide - word for word and line for line - with those of Miguel de Cervantes.
He wrote with such accuracy that his manuscript and the printed copy corresponded page for page, and line for line.