inwit

1. (archaic, uncountable) Inward knowledge or understanding.
2. (obsolete, uncountable) Conscience; inward sense of morality.

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈɪnwɪt/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: inwit

Inherited from Old English: *inwitt

Cognate with Scots: inwit

Cognate with Saterland Frisian: Gewieten

Cognate with Western Frisian: gewisse

Cognate with Dutch: geweten

Cognate with German: Gewissen

In summary

From Middle English inwit (“mind, reason, intellect, understanding; soul, spirit; feeling; the collection of inner faculties; one of five inner faculties; one of the outer bodily senses.; inward awareness of right or wrong, conscience”), from Old English *inwitt, inġewitnes (“consciousness, conscience, knowledge, knowing”), equivalent to in- + wit. Compare Scots inwit, Saterland Frisian Gewieten, West Frisian gewisse, Dutch geweten, German Low German Geweten, German Gewissen.

Translations

conscience

coscienza

geweten

consciência