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 essay was indited in the lawless style of chirography known as the “grass character,” and handed to the purchaser to be copied.

From Village Life in China A Study in Sociology by Smith, Arthur H.

I have been poring over his old-time chirography, clear-cut and beautiful as copper-plate.

From Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast by Drake, Samuel Adams

His chirography actually and undeniably exhibited the same general characteristics, only intensified and with less certainty of stroke and pen-pressure.

From Mortmain by Train, Arthur Cheny