Meaning of writ | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A written order, issued by a court, ordering someone to do (or stop doing) something.
   countable
2. appeal, writ
3. A document ordering that an election be conducted.
   Australia, Canada, New-Zealand, UK, countable
4. option, choice
5. An order issued by the House of Lords summoning peers to the Chamber.
   UK, countable
6. resource, means
7. Authority, power to enforce compliance.
   uncountable
8. resort, refuge (something or someone turned to for safety)
9. That which is written; writing.
   archaic, countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“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”

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