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whit 
[hwit, wit] Pronunciation Key
[hwit, wit] Pronunciation Key –noun
| a particle; bit; jot (used esp. in negative phrases): not a whit better. |
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| whit
(hwĭt, wĭt) Pronunciation Key
n. The least bit; an iota: doesn't give a whit what was said; not a whit afraid. [Middle English, amount, from Old English wiht; see wight1.] |
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whit
"smallest particle," 12c., in na whit "no amount," from O.E. nan wiht, from wiht "amount," originally "person, human being" (see wight).
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
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Whit\, n. [OE. wight, wiht, AS. wiht a creature, a thing. See Wight, and cf. Aught, Naught.] The smallest part or particle imaginable; a bit; a jot; an iota; -- generally used in an adverbial phrase in a negative sentence. "Samuel told him every whit." --1 Sam. iii. 18. "Every whit as great." --South. So shall I no whit be behind in duty. --Shak. It does not me a whit displease. --Cowley.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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