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Inwit vs Unwit - What's the difference?

inwit | unwit |

In obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between inwit and unwit

is that inwit is (obsolete) conscience; inward sense of morality while unwit is (obsolete) lack of wit or understanding; ignorance.

As nouns the difference between inwit and unwit

is that inwit is (archaic) inward knowledge or understanding while unwit is (obsolete) lack of wit or understanding; ignorance.

As a verb unwit is

to deprive of wit.

inwit

English

Noun

(-)
  • (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

    • Derived terms

    * angel's inwit

    unwit

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • (obsolete) Lack of wit or understanding; ignorance.
    • (Chaucer)

    Verb

    (unwitt)
  • To deprive of wit.
    • (Shakespeare)
    (Webster 1913)