chirography

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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

Not its content, but its chirography: stubborn, insecure, self-centered, secretive, ungenerous and frigid.

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.

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

My darling Brother,— I owe you two good long letters, and am ashamed to think how long it is since you have seen my crabbed chirography.

From Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910 by Elliott, Maud Howe