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
Now and then one came, a little missive in angular chirography, telling how she longed to return to them, which they read and re-read by candlelight.
From The Girl From Tim's Place by Munn, Charles Clark
As its bulk indicated, it was a lengthy epistle, and this length was more than doubled in reading matter by the fine chirography which covered its large pages.
From Where Duty Called or, In Honor Bound by Clair, Victor St.
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)
