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whit

  [hwit, wit]
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–noun
a particle; bit; jot (used esp. in negative phrases): not a whit better.
Origin:
1470–80; perh. alter. of ME wiht wight 1
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whit   (hwĭt, wĭt)   
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

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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whit 
"smallest particle," 12c., in na whit "no amount," from O.E. nan wiht, from wiht "amount," originally "person, human being" (see wight).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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