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Wiss vs Wisse - What's the difference?

wiss | wisse |

In archaic terms the difference between wiss and wisse

is that wiss is to know, to understand while wisse is to show, teach, inform, guide, direct.

wiss

English

Alternative forms

* wis

Verb

  • (archaic) To know, to understand.
  • * 1652 , Elias Ashmole, Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum :
    • Now with their might they downe me pull, and bring me where they woll, the Blood of myne heart I wiss now causeth both Joy and blisse.
  • * 1874 , Dodsley et al., A Select Collection of Old English Plays :
    • And though that the water be gross and heavy, yet nothing so gross as the earth, I wiss ; therefore by heat it is vapoured up lightly, and in the air maketh clouds and mists.

    wisse

    English

    Verb

  • (archaic) to show, teach, inform, guide, direct
  • :* Ere we depart I shall thee so well wisse That of mine house ne shalt thou never misse. — Chaucer
  • :* ''Shullen men chastice wymmen and wisse / Wiþ betyng whan þei done amisse? — Sidrak and Bokkus, 1500

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