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Agenbite - What does it mean?

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agenbite

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  • remorse, ayenbite, often used as a conscious archaism
    • Speaking to me. They wash and tub and scrub. Agenbite of inwit. Conscience.'' — James Joyce, ''Ulysses , 1922
    A special property of all social extensions of the body is that they return to plague the inventors in a kind of agenbite of outwit.'' — Marshall McLuhan, ''The Agenbite of Outwit , 1998
    But more to the point here, the agenbite is, if not a Jewish condition, then more pervasive among Jews than any other group, by a wide margin.'' — David Koffler, ''How Jewy Should We Want Our Presidents To Be? , 2008
    ... a habitude of writers challenged by the affliction of an over-agenbite and inwit to match.'' — James Rother, ''A Review of An Lauterbach , 2005

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