English Explanatory Dictionary

inwit

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Inward knowledge or understanding.
  2. Conscience; inward sense of morality.

Pronunciation

/ˈɪnwɪt/

Word forms

inwit

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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