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ywis

ywis 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 ywis

What is ywis the obsolete spelling of?
Ywis is the obsolete spelling of iwis.

Words near ywis in the dictionary

  1. YWCAs
  2. ywdL
  3. ywent
  4. ywette
  5. YWHA
  6. ywis
  7. YWMV
  8. ywn
  9. YWNBAM
  10. YWNBARM
  11. YWNBARW

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ywis (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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