Witting definition

Witting

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WordNet

(1) Aware or knowing

"A witting tool of the Communists"

(2) Intentionally conceived

"A conscious effort to speak more slowly"

"A conscious policy"

WiktionaryText

Partly from , partly from the present participle of .

Knowledge, awareness.
- Late C14, Geoffrey Chaucer, ‘The Wife of Bath's Prologue’ ll. 648-9, Canterbury Tales, Oxford 1988, p. 113:
  
  for his wyf was at a someres game, / Wiþouten his wityng, he forsook hire eke.