IN WRITING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does in writing mean? 

• IN WRITING (adjective)
  The adjective IN WRITING has 1 sense:

1. written or drawn or engraved

  Familiarity information: IN WRITING used as an adjective is very rare.

• IN WRITING (adverb)
  The adverb IN WRITING has 1 sense:

1. as written or printed

  Familiarity information: IN WRITING used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• IN WRITING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Written or drawn or engraved

Synonyms:

graphic; graphical; in writing

Context example:

graphic symbols

Similar:

written (set down in writing in any of various ways)

• IN WRITING (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

As written or printed

Synonyms:

in writing; on paper

Context example:

this is exactly what the composer had set down on paper

 Context examples 

In writing, again, the author must be omnipotent.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

I would spend the day in writing a third, which would bring my experiences absolutely up to date.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

If you are engaged in an ongoing project that involves a contractor, make sure you have estimates and changes in writing.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Also, in writing to his employer, Matt devoted a postscript to White Fang.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

My dearest Lucy,—Forgive my long delay in writing, but I have been simply overwhelmed with work.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Then I took down the sentence in writing.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Lose no time, my dearest, sweetest Catherine, in writing to him and to me, Who ever am, etc.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

The Lady Loring hath asked me to set down in writing what hath befallen at Twynham, and all that concerns the death of thy ill neighbor the Socman of Minstead.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Sometimes, indeed, he left marks in writing on the barks of the trees or cut in stone that guided me and instigated my fury.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

As dinner was not to be ready in less than two hours from their arrival, Elinor determined to employ the interval in writing to her mother, and sat down for that purpose.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)