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

Just as Freyer reached the door, a man hurried in with a letter, Freyer recognized the large well-known chirography on the envelope as he passed--Countess Wildenau's handwriting.

From On the Cross A Romance of the Passion Play at Oberammergau by Hillern, Wilhelmine von

Visitants of the school expressed surprise at the neatness of their needle-work, and chirography.

From Olive Leaves Or, Sketches of Character by Sigourney, L. H. (Lydia Howard)

He was a bright, active young man, but his chirography resembled, in illegibility if not in form, the Egyptian hieroglyphics.

From Memoirs of Orange Jacobs by Jacobs, Orange