agenbite
mod. rendering of ayenbite (= remorse), used after Joyce as a conscious archaism. See note at inwit 1, 2.
| 1922, etc. [see inwit 1, 2]. 1952 Dylan Thomas Let. 6 Nov. (1966) 380 ‘Put it off, put it off,’ ‘It's too late now.’.. These agenbite-deadeners did their long-night worst, but the little voice in the dark, oh, throb, throb it went across Kansas. 1972 Times 17 Apr. 14 Muggeridge is haunted..by plastic grass, the possibility that dawn will be photographed as though it were dusk. What agenbite of inwit must seize the old gentleman as they lard him with make-up prior to committing him to the arms of his camera. |