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written word

n. the written form of a word

Usage examples of "written word".

He could not read the manuscript as it was written in English, a language as foreign to him as Gorean would be to most of you, but yet he would treasure the manuscript and guard it as though it were a most precious possession, for he was a scribe and it is the way of scribes to love the written word and keep it from harm, and if he could not read the manuscript, what did it matter - perhaps someone could someday, and then the words which had kept their secret for so long would at last enkindle the mystery of communication and what had been written would be heard and understood.

Then he watched over the cunning man's shoulder, finding in the written word a magic as real as anything Old Nathan had woven or forged.

He owed his triumph over troubling circumstances to the written word.

Where Sci-Fi Buzz is glitzy, fast-paced and media-based, Prisoners of Gravity is in-depth offering for the lover of the written word.

Dinky Earnshaw is another person who knows the power of the written word, as you'll see in this terrific new novella.

If he was going to the trouble of drawing all those pictures, he wanted people to look at them, not skim past them as if they were the written word.

The Suitable Surroundings evoke's with singular subtlety yet apparent simplicity a piercing sense of the terror which may reside in the written word.