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When Pip is brought up by hand in Great Expectations, it means he was either spanked or slapped.

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Pip believed that "bringing up by hand" meant that he was actually physically lifted up by hand as a baby, rather than being cared for and raised by someone. He later learns that it actually refers to being raised without parents, but by someone else.

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