Sentence examples for writ from inspiring English sources

The word 'writ' is not correct and usable in written English.
It is not an English word and does not appear in standard dictionaries.

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writ

noun

A written order, issued by a court, ordering someone to do (or stop doing) something.

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A sort of towels-on-the-sunlounger tussle writ large.

In an attempt to put a firebreak in the Ukip advance, the Tories are likely to move the writ for the Rochester and Strood byelection in Kent next week before choosing its candidates in a full postal ballot of constituents.

The following morning's nearlies and one win aways were the small print while CHAMPIONS was writ large.

It is exactly the same, though writ far larger, in the sovereign risk world.

The story of Game of Thrones is already basically just a Monopoly session writ large, full of aggressive trading and spurious imprisonments and players seeking to gain total control over their peers.

It is the axis of prayer writ large in concrete.

As long as no one is in a position to tell me how to interpret it, or that I must believe in the literal truth of holy writ, then I like there to be an established church, a repository of a long-shared cultural heritage, with a ceremonial function, and a source of genuine belief for many people, of whom I am not one.

His job is to administer the Queen of England's writ in Ireland.

Also on Wednesday, after a flurry of legal challenges, more than 100 people were freed from police custody, having been been held since Monday under what amounted to a suspension by Hogan of the writ of habeas corpus – the right to be released from an arrest made without lawful cause.

Paul Nuttall, the party's deputy leader, said he was certain Bickley would have triumphed had Labour waited for the funeral of its former MP, Jim Dobbin, before moving the writ.

Patterson had held talks about "the crisis writ large", Harf said, in an effort to broker peace between all sides.

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