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writ
CEFRC2
/ɹɪt/
noun
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In plain English
- 01
noun
An official written order from a court.
- 02
noun
Extra detailA document ordering that an election be conducted.
Examples
My book became the Holy writ for all those engineers.
That was well writ.
At a glance
Sits at C2 on the CEFR scale
- Senses
- 5
- Parts of speech
- 1
- Citations
- 5
- Synonyms
- 1
Deep Dive
noun
Extra meaningsAn order issued by the House of Lords summoning peers to the Chamber.
A written order, issued by a court, ordering someone to do (or stop doing) something.
Authority, power to enforce compliance.
More examples
In contextWe can't let them take advantage of the fact that there are so many areas of the world where no one's writ runs.
Within Lololand, of course, no Chinese writ runs, no Chinese magistrate holds sway, and the people, more or less divided among themselves, are under the government of their tribal chiefs.
Then to his hands that writ he did betake, / Which he disclosing, red thus, as the paper spake.
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Origin
noun
From Middle English writ, from Old English writ and ġewrit (“writing”), from Proto-Germanic *writą (“fissure, writing”), from Proto-Indo-European *wrey-, *wrī- (“to scratch, carve, ingrave”). Cognate with Scots writ (“writ, writing, handwriting”), Icelandic rit (“writing, writ, literary work, publication”).