Inwit
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Inward knowledge or understanding. archaic, uncountable
""Will it make you happy?" / "Probably not," Kai said irritably. "Inwit tells me that you're trouble from the beginning.""
- 2 Conscience; inward sense of morality. obsolete, uncountable
"Speaking to me. They wash and tub and scrub. Agenbite of inwit. Conscience."
Example
More examples""Will it make you happy?" / "Probably not," Kai said irritably. "Inwit tells me that you're trouble from the beginning.""
Etymology
From Middle English inwit (“mind, reason, intellect, understanding; soul, spirit; feeling; the collection of inner faculties; one of five inner faculties; one of the outer bodily senses.; inward awareness of right or wrong, conscience”), from Old English *inwitt, inġewitnes (“consciousness, conscience, knowledge, knowing”), equivalent to in- + wit. Compare Scots inwit, Saterland Frisian Gewieten, West Frisian gewisse, Dutch geweten, German Low German Geweten, German Gewissen.
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