All 16 Uses
writ
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The Two Gentlemen of Verona
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- Why, she hath not writ to me?
Scene 2.1 *writ = written
- Some love of yours hath writ to you in rime.†
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- Look, here is writ 'kind Julia.'†
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- And here is writ 'love-wounded Proteus': Poor wounded name!†
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- Lo, here in one line is his name twice writ: 'Poor forlorn Proteus, passionate Proteus, To the sweet Julia':—that I'll tear away; And yet I will not, sith so prettily He couples it to his complaining names: Thus will I fold them one upon another: Now kiss, embrace, contend, do what you will.†
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- Are they not lamely writ?†
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- As you enjoin'd me, I have writ your letter Unto the secret nameless friend of yours; Which I was much unwilling to proceed in, But for my duty to your ladyship.†
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- Now trust me, madam, it came hardly off; For, being ignorant to whom it goes, I writ at random, very doubtfully.†
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- Yes, yes; the lines are very quaintly writ; But, since unwillingly, take them again: Nay, take them.†
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- Ay, ay, you writ them, sir, at my request; But I will none of them; they are for you.†
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- I would have had them writ more movingly.†
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- And when it's writ, for my sake read it over; And if it please you, so; if not, why, so.†
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- That's the letter I writ to her friend.†
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- 'For often have you writ to her; and she, in modesty, Or else for want of idle time, could not again reply; Or fearing else some messenger that might her mind discover, Herself hath taught her love himself to write unto her lover.'†
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- Thy letters may be here, though thou art hence, Which, being writ to me, shall be deliver'd Even in the milk-white bosom of thy love.†
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- Of her tongue she cannot, for that's writ down she is slow of; of her purse she shall not, for that I'll keep shut.†
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Definitions:
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(1)
(writ as in: writ from the court) an order issued by a court or judicial officer
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(2)
(writ as in: writ large) written large an idiom meaning made obvious (as though written in large print)
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(3)
(writ as in: holy writ) an unquestionable truth; or a sacred writing -- especially the Bible
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(4)
(writ as in: writ in her own hand) archaic way of saying written or wrote
- (5) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)