writ Synonyms
Another word for writ
• noun (Context 1)
A formal written order issued by a court, sovereign, or other body with administrative or judicial jurisdiction, commanding the addressee to perform or refrain from performing a specified act.
"The defense attorney filed a court order of habeas corpus to challenge the legality of the client's detention."
• noun (Context 2)
Something written, especially sacred scripture or an authoritative text (most commonly in the phrase "Holy Writ").
"The committee treated the founder's original charter as if it were sacred scripture that could never be amended."
• noun (Context 3)
One's recognized power, authority, or sphere of effective control (usually in the expression "one's writ runs").
"In the remote mountain provinces, the central government's jurisdiction barely ran beyond the garrison towns."
• verb (Context 4)
To form letters, words, or symbols on a surface; an archaic past tense and past participle of "write" (now chiefly preserved in the phrase "writ large").
"The novel presents the personal anxieties of its protagonist as the struggles of an entire generation written large."