Whit Definition

wĭt, hwĭt
noun
The least bit; jot; iota.
Not a whit the wiser.
Webster's New World

The smallest part or particle imaginable; an iota.

He worked tirelessly to collect and wind a ball of string eight feet around, and it matters not one whit.
Wiktionary

The season of Whitsuntide.

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Other Word Forms of Whit

Noun

Singular:
whit
Plural:
whits

Origin of Whit

  • Middle English amount from Old English wiht wight1

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Whit Sentence Examples

  • Nor have the Catholics been one whit behind them.

  • The latter is a beautiful Renaissance structure, with a magnificent facade and a delicate spire, and contains a grand hall, the Kaisersaal, in which every Whit Monday a play, Der Meistertrunk, which commemorates the capture of the town by Tilly in 1631, is performed.

  • Scots language, if you ken whit ah mean?

  • The Prussian diet of 1862 was no whit more tractable than its predecessor, but fell to attacking the prof essional army and advocating the extension of the militia (Landwchr) system; on the 11th of March the king dissolved it in disgust, whereupon the Liberal ministry resigned, and was succeeded by the Conservative cabinet of Prince Hohenlohe.

  • The spiritual habit abated no whit of his inborn sagacity, and it is said that in his later years political leaders found no shrewder sage with whom to take counsel.

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Words Starting With

WWHWHI

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TITHIT

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