Noun: inwit
Sample Sentences
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"Will it make you happy?" / "Probably not," Kai said irritably. "Inwit tells me that you're trouble from the beginning." [1990, Midori Snyder, Sadar's Keep, New York: Tom Doherty Associates:]
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Speaking to me. They wash and tub and scrub. Agenbite of inwit. Conscience. [1920, James Joyce, Ulysses:]
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"I knew that was so. Every time that inwit twanged ─ I have conscience like you, reverend sir!" [1960, Marcia Davenport, Constant Image:]
Nouns inflected like inwit
greyware,
chronotropy,
urgrund,
cytosorting,
homekeeping,
pedobaiting,
winterdress,
JLNS,
rumpology,
hopkinsiaxanthin,
enchylemma,
further education,
hexobendine,
humdrumminess,
unobligingness,
backscroll,
telocinobufagin,
dosulepin,
mensuralism,
crème de framboise, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
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. See: Middle English Nouns '
inwit', Dutch Nouns '
geweten', German Nouns '
Gewissen'.