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iwys

iwys is the obsolete spelling of iwis.

Meaning of iwis

Adverb

iwis (not comparable)

  1. (archaic, poetic) Certainly, surely, indeed.
    • Iwis, in all the Senate
      There was no heart so bold[…].1842, Thomas Macaulay, Horatius

Questions about iwys

What is iwys the obsolete spelling of?
Iwys is the obsolete spelling of iwis.

Words near iwys in the dictionary

  1. Iwo Jima
  2. Iwo To
  3. Iwon
  4. IWW
  5. IWWD
  6. iwys
  7. IX
  8. ix-nay
  9. ix-nayed
  10. ix-naying
  11. ix-nays

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Adapted from Wiktionary: iwys (page history and authors); iwis (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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