witing

Noun

witting (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) Knowledge, awareness.
   • Howbeit, as great is growyng, if we suffer thys yong king in our enemies hande, which without his witting might abuse the name of his commandement, to ante of our knowing, which thing God and good provision forbid.1600, John Stow, The Annales of England, page 728

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Verb (1)

wite (third-person singular simple present wites, present participle witing, simple past and past participle wited)

1. To regard (someone) as guilty; to accuse; to blame; to fault.
   • [H]e gan fovvly vvyte / His vvicked fortune, that had turnd aſlope, / And curſed night, that reſt from him ſo goodly ſcope.1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto IIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 52, page 459
2. To censure (someone); to mulct; to reproach.
   • [U]niuſtly thou doeſt vvyte them all, / For that vvhich thou miſlikedſt in a fevv.1595, Ed. Spencer [i.e., Edmund Spenser], Colin Clouts Come Home Againe, London: […] T[homas] C[reede] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, signature D3, verso
3. To guard (something); to keep; to observe, preserve, or protect.

Verb (2)

wite (third-person singular simple present wites, present participle witing, simple past and past participle wited)

1. (poetic, otherwise obsolete) To go; go away; depart; perish; vanish.

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