Meaning

2 senses

  1. Blame; responsibility; guilt.

  2. Punishment; penalty; fine; bote; mulct.

Origin

From Middle English wite (“guilt, blameworthiness, blame, wrongdoing, misdeed, offense, pu

From Middle English wite (“guilt, blameworthiness, blame, wrongdoing, misdeed, offense, punishment, retribution, fine, bote, customary rent”), from Old English wīte (“punishment, pain, torment”), from Proto-West Germanic *wītī, from Proto-Germanic *wītiją, from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“to see, find, behold”).

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Forms

plural: wites
Singularwite
Pluralwites

regular

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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