Witting vs Witing - What's the difference?
witting | witing |
(obsolete) Knowledge, awareness.
* Late 14th century , Geoffrey Chaucer, ‘The Wife of Bath's Prologue’ ll. 648-9, Canterbury Tales , Oxford 1988, p. 113:
As nouns the difference between witting and witing
is that witting is knowledge, awareness while witing is obsolete spelling of witting.As verbs the difference between witting and witing
is that witting is present participle of lang=en while witing is present participle of wite.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.
