Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Inward knowledge; understanding; conscience.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Inward sense; mind; understanding; conscience.
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- noun archaic Inward
knowledge orunderstanding . - noun obsolete
Conscience ; inward sense of morality.
Etymologies
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Examples
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May 18, 2008 at 4:55 pm iz dat teh ag-inbite ub inwit?
When fleas go unchecked - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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Some of it is maybe "agenbite of inwit," the Middle English phrase meaning remorse of conscience.
Rectitude Chic 2008
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Anyway, the most obvious distinction is that the sociopath would presumably remove the implant if he could, while most of us would not want to anaesthetise the agenbite of inwit, if this were somehow possible.
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His subsequent interest in Shintoism and Buddhism lacks the mordancy and introspection (the "agenbite of inwit," as Joyce liked to put it) of his earlier hermeneutic investigations.
The Immortal 2004
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His subsequent interest in Shintoism and Buddhism lacks the mordancy and introspection (the "agenbite of inwit," as Joyce liked to put it) of his earlier hermeneutic investigations.
The Immortal 2004
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And, oh yes, my theory has been peer-reviewed but not in any of your so-called biased scientific journals. inwit
Breaking news: Darwin appears in holy frying pan! - The Panda's Thumb 2005
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What James Joyce called the agenbyte of inwit - a remorse of consciousness.
justinker Diary Entry justinker 2005
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His refusal to take part in the family's prayers for her seems to have stimulated that remorse of conscience, that "agenbite of inwit" which reechoes through Ulysses.
James Joyce 1946
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They are so thoroughly unhealthy, so morbid, so pallid with moonlight, so indentured by the ayenbite of inwit, that it is hard to believe that
Shandygaff Christopher Morley 1923
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Denum æðeling tō yppan, _the prince_ (Bēowulf), _honored by the Danes, went to the high seat_, 1815; ēode ... under inwit-hrōf, 3124; pl. þǣr swīðferhðe sittan ēodon, 493; ēodon him þā tōgēanes, _went to meet him_,
Beowulf Robert Sharp 1879
redfox commented on the word inwit
See agenbite.
December 10, 2006
fbharjo commented on the word inwit
used by Gerard Manley Hopkins along with instress and inscape.
There is one notable dead tree . . . the inscape markedly holding its most simple and beautiful oneness up from the ground through a graceful swerve below (I think) the spring of the branches up to the tops of the timber. I saw the inscape freshly, as if my mind were still growing, though with a companion the eye and the ear are for the most part shut and instress cannot come. - from Hopkin's Journals
February 19, 2007
AnWulf commented on the word inwit
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
November 28, 2011
ruzuzu commented on the word inwit
From the Tweets:
“Dilly is drowning. Agenbite. Save her. Agenbite. She will drown me with her. Salt green death. We. Agenbite of inwit. #Ulysses #Joyce”
@11ysses
November 28, 2011
fbharjo commented on the word inwit
inwit in Beowulf means 'mischief', 'cunning hostility' and 'evil'. What a transition to inwit has to its later meaning. The Beowulfian meaning is more 'outwit' in the current venacular
It is much like the contrast between 'hostile' and 'hospitable' that come from the same Indo-European root ghos-ti-, stranger.
November 28, 2011
qms commented on the word inwit
A writer should write not as might Joyce
But in an authentic and "right" voice.
When a sinner's been bit
By bitter inwit
To cite agenbite is the trite choice.
November 22, 2014