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
He returned within a minute with a cabinet-size photo upon the front of which was written, “From Loris, January ’18,” in the vertical chirography much practiced by social buds.
From Whispering Wires by Henry Leverage
Just as Freyer reached the door, a man hurried in with a letter, Freyer recognized the large well-known chirography on the envelope as he passed--Countess Wildenau's handwriting.
From On the Cross A Romance of the Passion Play at Oberammergau by Wilhelmine von Hillern
We got a specimen of his handwriting and compared it with the sheet of manuscript; the chirography was identical.
From Sons and Fathers by Harry Stillwell Edwards
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