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

His chirography actually and undeniably exhibited the same general characteristics, only intensified and with less certainty of stroke and pen-pressure.

From Mortmain by Train, Arthur Cheny

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

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