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

As its bulk indicated, it was a lengthy epistle, and this length was more than doubled in reading matter by the fine chirography which covered its large pages.

From Where Duty Called or, In Honor Bound by Clair, Victor St.

The chirography of the girl, who could not write at the time of her mother's death, is precisely similar to hers—as similar as it is unlike that of the sister by whom she was educated.

From Jessamine A Novel by Harland, Marion

We got a specimen of his handwriting and compared it with the sheet of manuscript; the chirography was identical.

From Sons and Fathers by Edwards, Harry Stillwell