Witting vs Wilting - What's the difference?
witting | wilting |
(obsolete) Knowledge, awareness.
* Late 14th century , Geoffrey Chaucer, ‘The Wife of Bath's Prologue’ ll. 648-9, Canterbury Tales , Oxford 1988, p. 113:
As verbs the difference between witting and wilting
is that witting is while wilting is .As a noun witting
is (obsolete) knowledge, awareness.As an adjective witting
is aware, knowledgable.witting
English
Etymology 1
Partly from (etyl) vitand, partly from the present participle of (wit).Noun
(-)- for his wyf was at a someres game, / Wiþouten his wityng , he forsook hire eke.