chirography
Example Sentences
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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
She seized it again and pored over it with keen eyes; but its neat, cramped chirography revealed nothing.
From Faithful Margaret A Novel by Ashmore, Annie
The early registers still exist in Stationers' Hall, near Paternoster Row, London, in quaint and almost undecipherable chirography, and some of them have been reissued in facsimile.
From Copyright: Its History and Its Law by Bowker, Richard Rogers
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.
