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Webster 1913 Edition
Inwit
In′wit
,Noun.
Inward sense; mind; understanding; conscience.
[Obs.]
Wyclif.
Webster 1828 Edition
Inwit
IN'WIT
,Noun.
Definition 2024
inwit
inwit
English
Noun
inwit (uncountable)
- (archaic) Inward knowledge or understanding.
- "Will it make you happy?" / "Probably not," Kai said irritably. "Inwit tells me that you're trouble from the beginning." — Midori Snyder, Sadar's Keep, A Tom Doherty Associates Book, New York, 1991
- (obsolete) Conscience; inward sense of morality.
- (Can we date this quote?) Speaking to me. They wash and tub and scrub. Agenbite of inwit. Conscience. — James Joyce, Ulysses, 1922
- "I knew that was so. Every time that inwit twanged -- I have conscience like you, reverend sir!" -- — Marcia Davenport, Constant Image, 1960
- (Can we date this quote?) Inwit, a term for conscience, suggests the inner senses and interior sensibility, which accords nicely with the current state of the senses under the regime of electric technologies. — Marshall McLuhan, The Agenbite of Outwit, 1998
- "What's the matter? Can't a ballplayer - an ex-ballplayer - have a literate vocabulary?" / "Sure. But 'qualm?' " / "How about 'the aginbite of inwit' then?" — Paul Di Filippo, Seeing is believing, Fantasy & Science Fiction: Apr 2003:. Vol. 104, Iss. 4; pg. 131
Derived terms
- angel's inwit