| 单词 | writ large |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswrit (also written) large (a) writ (also written) large: displayed or expressed in a prominent way or to striking extent.After Milton's use in quot. 1673, where the sense is ‘written at length or more fully’. ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > state of having been written > [adjective] > written prominently written with a sunbeam (or in sunbeams)1626 writ (also written) large1826 1673 J. Milton On New Forcers of Conscience in Poems (new ed.) 69 New Presbyter is but Old Priest writ Large.] 1826 E. Irving Babylon I. i. 54 It [sc. the Revelation of John] is also certain parts of the book of Daniel writ large. 1866 ‘G. Eliot’ Felix Holt I. viii. 203 The man was no more than the boy writ large, with an extensive commentary. 1932 W. Lewis Creatures of Habit (1989) 193 The ideology of Progress is writ large all over the Communist propaganda of ‘machine-mindedness’. 1983 M. Cook Muhammad iii. 27 Near Eastern gods were often human beings writ large: they had bodies of human shape, quarrelled, behaved irresponsibly when drunk, and so forth. 2015 P. Hawkins Girl on Train 154 She gave me a hug. Niceness writ large. < as lemmas |
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