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
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Not its content, but its chirography: stubborn, insecure, self-centered, secretive, ungenerous and frigid.
From Time Magazine Archive
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It becomes me to have a fine pen, and to try and be rather refined than otherwise in my chirography!
From Memoir of Mary L. Ware, Wife of Henry Ware, Jr. by Hall, Edward B.
My darling Brother,— I owe you two good long letters, and am ashamed to think how long it is since you have seen my crabbed chirography.
From Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910 by Elliott, Maud Howe
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.