wit
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wit englanniksi
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The senses.
Intellectual ability; faculty of thinking, reasoning.
The ability to think quickly; mental cleverness, especially under short time constraints.
Intelligence; common sense.
1460-1500, ''The Towneley Plays''ː
- I give the wit, I give the strength, of all thou seest, of breadth and length; thou shalt be wonder-wise, mirth and joy to have at will, all thy liking to fulfill, and dwell in paradise.
(RQ:Marlowe Tamburlaine)
(RQ:Shakespeare Sonnets)
Humour, especially when clever or quick.
(RQ:Landon Francesca Carrara)
(RQ:Churchill Celebrity). Our table in the dining-room became again the abode of scintillating wit and caustic repartee, Farrar bracing up to his old standard, and the demand for seats in the vicinity rose to an animated competition.
(quote-av)|title=(w)|season=7|number=14|writer=(w)|date=04 February 1996|section=production code 3F13|passage=''Evelyn Peters:'' "Don't worry, Marge. Her idea of wit is nothing more than an incisive observation humorously phrased and delivered with impeccable timing".
(RQ:Fry Liar)
A person who tells funny anecdotes or jokes; someone witty.
(RQ:Jonson Poetaster) Can thy Author doe it impudently enough? / ''Hiſt''''rio''. O, I warrant you, Captaine: and ſpitefully inough too; he ha's one of the moſt ouerflowing villanous wits, in ''Rome''. He will ſlander any man that breathes; If he diſguſt him. / ''Tucca''. I'le know the poor, egregious, nitty Raſcall; and he haue ſuch commendable Qualities, I'le cheriſh him: (..)
1483 Thomas Malory: ''Le morte d'Arthur''
- Truly, said fair Elaine, I shall do all that I may do, for as fain would I know and wit where he is become as you or any of his kin, or queen Guenever, and cause great enough have I thereto as well as any other. And wit ye well, said fair Elaine to Sir Bors, I would lose my life for him rather than he should be hurt.
(RQ:KJV)
1849, Gabriel Rossetti|Dante Gabriel Rossetti, ''St. Luke the Painter'', lines 5–8
- but soon having wist
- How sky-breadth and field-silence and this day
- Are symbols also in some deeper way,
- She looked through these to God and was God’s priest.
(pronunciation spelling of)
(romanization of)
(alternative form of)
having a relatively light skin colour
legally obtained by having paid the appropriate taxes
clear-lighted, not dark at all
white (qualifier)
(''short for (m)'')
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(nl-verb form of)
(cln) eight.
(cln) eight
pale (of skin)
(l)
''(the first-person dual nominative)'' we
to leave