inwit

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Swā sceal mǣg dōn, nealles inwit-net ōðrum bregdan, dyrnum cræfte dēað rēnian

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  1. Inward knowledge; understanding; conscience. This word is best known in the title of a Middle English work in the Kentish dialect, “The Ayenbite of Inwyt,” that is, Remorse of Conscience, translated in the year 1340 by Dan Michel, a monk, from a French work entitled “Le somme des vices et des vertues.” Inwit in the hed is and helpeth the soule, For thorw his connynge he kepeth Caro et Anima In rule and in reson bote recheles hit make. Piers Plowman (A), x. 49.

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  • Agenbite of inwit: remorse of conscience. —  Ulysses
  • Swâ sceal mæg dôn, nealles inwit-net ôðrum bregdan, dyrnum cräfte deáð rênian —  Beowulf
  • S. proposes: eóde eahta sum under inwit-hrôf hilderinca: sum on handa bär, etc. —  Beowulf
  • -- Comp.: hyge -, inwit -, þegn-sorh. sorh-cearig, adj., _curis sollicitus, heart-broken_: nom. sg., —  Beowulf
  • III. ne him inwit-sorh on sefan sweorceð (_darkens his soul_), 1738. for-sweorcan, _to grow dark_ or _dim_: pres. sg. —  Beowulf
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  1. Middle English inwit, inwyt, from Anglo-Saxon inwit, consciousness, conscience, from in, in, + wit, knowledge: see wit, n.
 

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