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Writ large

//ɹɪt ˈlɑːd͡ʒ// adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    On a large scale; magnified. figuratively

    "Since then his character had been ripened by a various experience, and also by much knowledge which he had set himself deliberately to gain. But the man was no more than the boy writ large, with an extensive commentary."

  2. 2
    Readily discerned, unmistakably indicated; clear, obvious. figuratively

    ""You don't want to live down there!" everybody said, with disapprobation writ large upon their faces. "Why, it is said there are places where a man's life isn't worth tu'pence.""

  3. 3
    in general figuratively

    "In the case of Malaysia, for instance, the regime depends not on "labour" writ large but specifically on the unorganised Malay masses."

Adjective
  1. 1
    made more obvious or prominent wordnet

Etymology

From writ (“(archaic) written”) + large, from the poem “On the New Forcers of Conscience under the Long Parliament” in Poems, &c. upon Several Occasions (1673) by the English poet John Milton (1608–1674): “New Presbyter is but Old Priest writ large”; Milton was using the phrase in the sense “written more completely”.

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