Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
iwis .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb Obs. or Archaic Certainly; most likely; truly; probably.
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- adverb Obsolete spelling of
iwis .
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Examples
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Think not that I have forgotten thy sometime promises, Though long thou hast protracted thy cruelty, ywis.
The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume III Anonymous 1879
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"One, who in dalliance affects the male, no female is, And he who is effeminate of step's no male, ywis."
The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume IV Anonymous 1879
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'Sir king,' quoth Merlin then, 'such thingë's ywis
Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Complete George Gilfillan 1845
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For they would the stonës wash and therein bathe ywis;
Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Complete George Gilfillan 1845
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For they would the stonës wash and therein bathe ywis;
Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Volume 1 George Gilfillan 1845
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'Sir king,' quoth Merlin then, 'such thingë's ywis
Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Volume 1 George Gilfillan 1845
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+ One that hath hearde all your talke and singyng ywis.
Ralph Roister Doister Nicholas Udall 1530
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