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

I have been poring over his old-time chirography, clear-cut and beautiful as copper-plate.

From Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast by Drake, Samuel Adams

The early registers still exist in Stationers' Hall, near Paternoster Row, London, in quaint and almost undecipherable chirography, and some of them have been reissued in facsimile.

From Copyright: Its History and Its Law by Bowker, Richard Rogers

Indeed his favourite attitude when in repose showed his wonderful gift in chirography  as well as his affection for me.

From Mr. Munchausen  Being a True Account of Some of the Recent Adventures beyond the Styx of the Late Hieronymus Carl Friedrich, Sometime Baron Munchausen of Bodenwerder by Bangs, John Kendrick