Inwit refers to conscience, reason, intellect, or courage.
Inwit refere-se à consciência, razão, intelecto ou coragem.
| Front | inwit \IN-wit\ |
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| Back | noun 1. Conscience. 2. Reason, intellect. 3. Courage. [From Old English inwit, from in + wit (mind, thought). Earliest documented use: 1230. The word is usually seen as part of the phrase agenbite of inwit. Agenbite (remorse) is literally, again-bite, a variant of ayenbite, from ayen (again) + bite. James Joyce reanimated this ancient term back into the language when he used it in Ulysses.] "The Journals of Sylvia Plath may be intensely introspective, full of the agenbite of inwit, but they are just as intensely external, describing -- with an attentiveness one can't imagine in any male diarist -- food, furniture, hair, flowers, colours, and clothes." - Blake Morrison; Love at First Bite; Independent On Sunday (London, UK); Apr 2, 2000. |
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