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

Indeed his favourite attitude when in repose showed his wonderful gift in chirography  as well as his affection for me.

From Mr. Munchausen  Being a True Account of Some of the Recent Adventures beyond the Styx of the Late Hieronymus Carl Friedrich, Sometime Baron Munchausen of Bodenwerder by Bangs, John Kendrick

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 Jacobs, Orange

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 Ottolengui, R.