cacography

Example Sentences

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And yet, upon careful examination we find a method, a system, in Underhill's orthography, or rather in his cacography.

From Sabbath in Puritan New England by Earle, Alice Morse

I am willing to lay the blame of these errata on my own cacography, rather than on the printer's back.

From Notes and Queries, Number 185, May 14, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Bell, George

Most lovely is the youthful hand of his eldest daughter: the cacography of her later years is, alas! something horrible.

From Joyce Morrell's Harvest The Annals of Selwick Hall by Holt, Emily Sarah

He blows off his steam with such an eagerness that he forgets for a time, or nearly forgets, his cacography.

From Thackeray by Trollope, Anthony

A letter more or less in a name was of no account in the cacography of those times.

From Claverhouse by Morris, Mowbray