charactery
Americannoun
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the use of characters or symbols for the expression of meaning.
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characters or symbols collectively.
noun
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the use of symbols to express thoughts
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the group of symbols so used
Etymology
Origin of charactery
Example Sentences
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Meanwhile, across town, Mr. Pratt was having what he describes as “an identity crisis as an actor,” vacillating between what he calls “fat charactery guy and in-shape charactery guy.”
From New York Times ● Jul. 24, 2014
I had failed even to make fruitful use of the one skill I did possess—the art of charactery.
From "The Shakespeare Stealer" by Gary L. Blackwood
Without thinking, I wrote them in Dr. Bright's charactery.
From "The Shakespeare Stealer" by Gary L. Blackwood
When we remember the violin, inwardly ridged with the vibrations of old tunes, old discords, who would wonder to find some charactery of light tracing its indelible script within the crystal substance?
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 75, January, 1864 by Various
Romance was in no further need of vindication, when all Scott's library of prose and verse stood back of her, and "High-piled books in charactery Held, like rich garners, the full-ripened grain."
From A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century by Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers
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