chirography
Americannoun
noun
Other Word Forms
- chirographer noun
- chirographic adjective
- chirographical adjective
Etymology
Origin of 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
It becomes me to have a fine pen, and to try and be rather refined than otherwise in my chirography!
From Memoir of Mary L. Ware, Wife of Henry Ware, Jr. by Hall, Edward B.
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.
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
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