write
verb (used with object)
to trace or form (characters, letters, words, etc.) on the surface of some material, as with a pen, pencil, or other instrument or means; inscribe.
have writ
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present perfectof write.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Shirley Challoner, a blessing, would never have writ ten this book.
From Time Magazine Archive
Some federal courts have "writ clerks" who do nothing but go over prisoner petitions.
From Time Magazine Archive
I have writ an History of thy Experiment.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
Dr. Lucas may have writ there what he pleases, but there's no putting Francis, Lord Hardy, now Earl of Brumpton, out of your head, or making him absent from your eyes.
From Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges by George Saintsbury
“I have writ some letters,” he said picking them up from the table.
From Peggy Owen and Liberty by Lucy Foster Madison
