- past participle of writeWord Originnoun Old English, as a general term denoting written matter, from the Germanic base of write.
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Idioms
See writ in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionarywrit large (literary)
- easy to see or understand
- Mistrust was writ large on her face.
- (used after a noun) being a large or obvious example of the thing mentioned
- This is deception writ large.
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