chirography

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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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

They are law papers she is copying, in that clear, legible chirography.

From Norine's Revenge; Sir Noel's Heir by Fleming, May Agnes

We shall not object to your chirography, so you must practise it often, and let me hear of your progress and well-doing.

From From Manassas to Appomattox Memoirs of The Civil War in America by Longstreet, James

The chirography of the girl, who could not write at the time of her mother's death, is precisely similar to hers—as similar as it is unlike that of the sister by whom she was educated.

From Jessamine A Novel by Harland, Marion