no whit, adv.
Also 7 whitte, Sc. quhite.
[See whit n.]
Not at all, not the least.
| 1530 Palsgr. 862/1 No whyt nere done, pas paracheué de beaucoup pres. 1556 J. Heywood Spider & Fly ii, That nowhit cared I what flie did know it. 1600 J. Pory tr. Leo's Africa vii. 294 His son, being no whit inferiour in valour & high courage vnto his father. 1644 Digby Nat. Bodies xxxvii. §3. 321 They are no whitte more extra⁓ordinary, then a fawkeners manning of a hawke. 1660 Jer. Taylor Duct. Dubit. iv. i. rule 5 §16 He was very much the worse Man for it, but no whit the worse Painter. |
| 1805 Scott Last Minstr. iii. iv, But no whit weary did he seem. 1820 ― Monast. xvi, Considering the hardships of this..gallant knight, no whit mentioning or weighing those we ourselves have endured. |