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whit

    [hwit, wit]

whit definition by Webster's New World

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noun
the least bit; jot; iota: chiefly in negative constructions: not a whit the wiser

Origin: Early Modern English respelling of wiht, a wight

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2010 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

whit definition by American Heritage Dictionary

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noun
The least bit; an iota: doesn't give a whit what was said; not a whit afraid.

Origin: Middle English, amount, from Old English wiht; see wight1.

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    Now sleeps the crimson petal, now the white; Nor waves the cypress in the palace walk; Nor winks the gold fin in the porphyry font: The fire-fly wakens: waken thou, with me. Now droops the milk-white peacock like a ghost, And like a ghost she glimmers on to me. Now lies the Earth all Dana' to the stars, 842 And all thy heart lies open unto me. Now slides the silent meteor on, and leaves A shining furrow, as thy thoughts in me. Now folds the lily all her sweetness up, And slips into the bosom of the lake: So fold thyself, my dearest, thou, and slip Into my bosom and be lost in me. Tennyson
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