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wisting

wisting is the present participle and gerund of wist.

Meaning of wist

Verb

wist (third-person singular simple present wists, present participle wisting, simple past and past participle wisted)

  1. (nonstandard, pseudo-archaic) To know, be aware of.
    • […] speak to the man, and he wists not that his face doth shine.1890, Joseph Parker, The People's Bible: The Psalter, page 218

Questions about wisting

What is wisting the present participle and gerund of?
Wisting is the present participle and gerund of wist.

Words near wisting in the dictionary

  1. wistest
  2. wistful
  3. wistfully
  4. wistfulness
  5. wistfulnesses
  6. wisting
  7. wistiti
  8. wistitis
  9. wistless
  10. wistly
  11. Wiston

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