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
Gill took from his pocket a neatly folded, daintily perfumed letter, the chirography of which was like steel-engraving.
From Belford's Magazine, Vol 2, December 1888 by Various
His chirography actually and undeniably exhibited the same general characteristics, only intensified and with less certainty of stroke and pen-pressure.
From Mortmain by Arthur Cheny Train
Upon attempting to read the manuscript I at first found myself puzzled by a style of chirography very peculiar and characteristic, but execrably bad.
From Etidorhpa or the End of Earth. The Strange History of a Mysterious Being and The Account of a Remarkable Journey by John Uri Lloyd
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