inwit
Inward knowledge or understandingInward knowledge or understanding.
/ˈɪnwɪt/
Meaning
2 senses(archaic, uncountable)Inward knowledge or understanding.
(archaic, uncountable)Conscience; inward sense of morality.
Origin
From Middle English inwit (“mind, reason, intellect, understanding; soul, spirit; feeling;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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Lessons for this word
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