Inwit vs Innit - What's the difference?
inwit | innit |
(archaic) Inward knowledge or understanding.
* "Will it make you happy?" / "Probably not," Kai said irritably. "Inwit tells me that you're trouble from the beginning." — Midori Snyder, Sadar's Keep , A Tom Doherty Associates Book, New York, 1991
(obsolete) Conscience; inward sense of morality.
* (rfdate) Speaking to me. They wash and tub and scrub. Agenbite of inwit . Conscience. — James Joyce, Ulysses , 1922
* "I knew that was so. Every time that inwit twanged -- I have conscience like you, reverend sir!" -- — Marcia Davenport, Constant Image , 1960
* (rfdate) 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
* "What's the matter? Can't a ballplayer - an ex-ballplayer - have a literate vocabulary?" / "Sure. But 'qualm?' " / "How about 'the aginbite of inwit' then?" — Paul Di Filippo, Seeing is believing , Fantasy & Science Fiction: Apr 2003:. Vol. 104, Iss. 4; pg. 131