inwit

n. 良知,理解

发音

/ˈɪnwɪt/

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    Inward knowledge or understanding.

    古体 不可数
  2. 2.

    Conscience; inward sense of morality.

    废旧 不可数

词源

From Middle English 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”), from Old English *inwitt, inġewitnes (“consciousness, conscience, knowledge, knowing”), equivalent to in- + wit. Compare Scots inwit, Saterland Frisian Gewieten, West Frisian gewisse, Dutch geweten, German Low German Geweten, German Gewissen.

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