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
Gill took from his pocket a neatly folded, daintily perfumed letter, the chirography of which was like steel-engraving.
From Belford's Magazine, Vol 2, December 1888 by Various
Back, therefore, he hastened to the Imperial, where, however, his search for familiar chirography was fruitless.
From Final Proof or the Value of Evidence by R. Ottolengui
His hand shook as he held it and studied the chirography.
From Sons and Fathers by Harry Stillwell Edwards
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