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want-wit
ˈwant-wit [f. want v. + wit n. Cf. lack-wit (lack v.1 7).] One who lacks wit or sense.1448–9 J. Metham Amoryus & Cl. 1459 But alle to late now, as wantewyttys we make owre mone. 1579 W. Wilkinson Confut. Fam. Love 41 Shall we thinke..that he would be such a want witte as to take all kynde of coine.....
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Idyll VI
and ‘gins to pine for me
And glowers from the deep on the cave and the sheep like a want-wit lass o’ the sea
And the dog that bayed, I hissed him on; for
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fathering
ˈfathering, vbl. n. [f. father v. + -ing1.] The action of the vb. father; an instance of this.1549 Coverdale Erasm. Par. Rom. i. 1 A fauourable and gentle fatherying. Ibid. 6 Ye Romaines are..by adopcion & fatheryng, called all to the..Surname of Iesus Christe. 1894 ‘G. Egerton’ Discords 60 The want...
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Washing the Ethiopian White
There the travellers come across the characters Fool and Want-Wit 'washing of an Ethiopian with intention to make him white, but the more they washed him
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want
▪ I. want, n.1 Now dial. (wɒnt) Forms: 1 wand, wond; 4–6 wonte, 7 wounte, 5– wont; 6 wante, (vant), 6– want; 9 dial. waunt, wunt, woont, (h)unt, (h)oont, etc. (see Eng. Dial. Dict.). [OE. wand, wǫnd = Sw. dial. vand (cited by Aasen), Norw. vand, vaand, vond, v{obar}nd, mole, also shrew (also in comb...
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Antonio (The Merchant of Venice)
wearies me, you say it wearies you;
But how I caught it, found it, or came by it,
What stuff ‘tis made of, whereof it is born,
I am to learn
And such a want-wit
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آن فينش، كونتيسة وينشيلسي
And many have attained, dull and untaught,
The name of wit only by finding fault. True judges might condemn their want of wit,
آن فينش من قصيدتها، The Introduction
استهلت آن فينش قصيدتها The Introduction بهذه الأبيات، حيث ترحب بالقراء
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