Holy Writ
Americannoun
noun
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Figuratively, “holy writ” is any text or document that is presumed to speak with unquestioned authority.
Etymology
Origin of Holy Writ
before 1000; Middle English holi writ, Old English hālige writu (plural)
Example Sentences
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Huneven’s fellow congregants must be poring over these pages like Holy Writ searching for signs of their faces and foibles.
From Washington Post • May 3, 2022
Analytics border on Holy Writ in baseball front offices and for many sportswriters, and this too acts to strangely diminish stars even in their moment of glory.
From New York Times • Mar. 1, 2019
Leahy, a strong institutionalist and protector of the Senate’s prerogatives, viewed the blue slip as something akin to a Holy Writ.
From New York Times • Aug. 22, 2018
The Coens present the novel's dialogue more or less as written; indeed they revere it as Holy Writ.
From Time • Dec. 22, 2010
Since a Suggestion from the Master is a Command not unlike Holy Writ, I shall digress and comply at the same Time.
From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck
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