cacography

Example Sentences

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

From Claverhouse by Morris, Mowbray

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

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

If he owed to Smollett's Humphrey Clinker the form of his Up the Rhine, he has equalled Smollett in the narrative, in the variety of character, and in the admirable cacography of Martha Penny.

From English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction by Coppee, Henry