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
The writing as an example of the chirography of the century is of interest.
From The Thirteenth Greatest of Centuries by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh
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
He was a bright, active young man, but his chirography resembled, in illegibility if not in form, the Egyptian hieroglyphics.
From Memoirs of Orange Jacobs by Orange Jacobs
