writ
/ɹɪt/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.30 in modern English
7
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A written order, issued by a court, ordering someone to do (or stop doing) something.
Countable
Example Sentences
- "We 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."
- "Babylon, so much spoken of in Holy Writ"
- "These aforementioned three donkeys I hereby order immediately transferred as payment for others herewith received, which shall comprise, by this compensatory writ, full and complete payment thereof."
- "I know the hand, in faith tis a faire hand, And whiter then the paper it writ on, Is the faire hand that writ."
Etymology
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”).