chirography

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Not its content, but its chirography: stubborn, insecure, self-centered, secretive, ungenerous and frigid.

From Time Magazine Archive

Even though some words were beyond their ken, 1947-5 boys & girls batted 44.68% on such items as accessible, chirography, descendant and evanescent.

From Time Magazine Archive

When the occasion arrives for which the writing was obtained, each guest finds at his cover a card bearing his name and a printed delineation of his character formed from the chirography.

From Dinners and Luncheons Novel Suggestions for Social Occasions by Pierce, Paul

But apart from the question of chirography one other manifestation constantly reminded Mortmain of his crime.

From Mortmain by Train, Arthur Cheny

The writing as an example of the chirography of the century is of interest.

From The Thirteenth Greatest of Centuries by Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)