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

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

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

Girls with soul-and-body weariness writ across their faces in the sure chirography of hair-line wrinkles stood pelican-fashion, first on one leg and then on the other, to alternate the strain.

From Just Around the Corner Romance en casserole by Hurst, Fannie