(n.) The art of writing or engrossing; handwriting; as, skilled in chirography.
(n.) The art of telling fortunes by examining the hand.
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Penmanship
Definition:
(n.) The use of the pen in writing; the art of writing; style or manner of writing; chirography; as, good or bad penmanship.
Example Sentences:
(1) The pages have many cross-outs and insertions in meticulous penmanship – with an open acknowledgment that some of the maths was beyond even him.
(2) The digital age, with its typing and its texting, has left us unable to jot down the simplest of notes with anything like penmanship.
(3) He smiles down from the foyer of the college that houses the day-care centre only to peer out again amid the stick-men pictures and spidery penmanship on the wall of centre itself.
(4) Whether the change is in my eyesight, my tolerance level, or student penmanship, reading exam scripts is becoming, for me too, increasingly painful.
(5) In summary then, the neuropsychological profile of Filipino parkinsonians reveals deficits in visuospatial processing, social judgment, attention and mental tracking, recent memory and word retrieval, aside from predicted difficulty in fine motor activities which would result in a deterioration of their penmanship.
(6) In response to these difficulties, special educators often modify literacy instruction, isolating the "basic skills" of literacy (such as decoding and penmanship) from meaningful reading and writing activities.