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From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English (deprecated template usage) inwit, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old English *(deprecated template usage) inwitt, (deprecated template usage) inġewitnes, equivalent to Lua error in Module:parameters at line 360: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "in" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E..

Lua error in Module:parameters at line 360: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "/ˈɪnwɪt/" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E.

inwit (uncountable)

Template:archaic Inward knowledge or understanding.
- "Will it make you happy?" / "Probably not," Kai said irritably. "Inwit tells me that you're trouble from the beginning." — Midori Snyder, Sadar's Keep, A Tom Doherty Associates Book, New York, 1991
Template:obsolete Conscience; inward sense of morality.
- (Can we date this quote?)Lua error in Module:parameters at line 360: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "{{{1}}}" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. Speaking to me. They wash and tub and scrub. Agenbite of inwit. Conscience. — James Joyce, Ulysses, 1922
- "I knew that was so. Every time that inwit twanged -- I have conscience like you, reverend sir!" -- — Marcia Davenport, Constant Image, 1960
- (Can we date this quote?)Lua error in Module:parameters at line 360: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "{{{1}}}" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. Inwit, a term for conscience, suggests the inner senses and interior sensibility, which accords nicely with the current state of the senses under the regime of electric technologies. — Marshall McLuhan, The Agenbite of Outwit, 1998
- "What's the matter? Can't a ballplayer - an ex-ballplayer - have a literate vocabulary?" / "Sure. But 'qualm?' " / "How about 'the aginbite of inwit' then?" — Paul Di Filippo, Seeing is believing, Fantasy & Science Fiction: Apr 2003:. Vol. 104, Iss. 4; pg. 131

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 ===Etymology===
-From {{etyl|enm}} {{term|inwit|inwit|mind, reason, intellect, understanding; soul, spirit; feeling; the collection of inner faculties; one of five inner faculties; one of the outer bodily senses.; inward awareness of right or wrong, conscience|lang=enm}}, from {{etyl|ang}} *{{term||inwitt|lang=ang}}, {{term|ingewitnes|inġewitnes|consciousness, conscience, knowledge, knowing|lang=ang}}, equivalent to {{prefix|in|wit}}.
+From {{etyl|enm|en}} {{term|inwit|inwit|mind, reason, intellect, understanding; soul, spirit; feeling; the collection of inner faculties; one of five inner faculties; one of the outer bodily senses.; inward awareness of right or wrong, conscience|lang=enm}}, from {{etyl|ang|en}} *{{term||inwitt|lang=ang}}, {{term|ingewitnes|inġewitnes|consciousness, conscience, knowledge, knowing|lang=ang}}, equivalent to {{prefix|in|wit}}.
 ===Pronunciation===