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wite
1[ wahyt ]
noun
- (in Anglo-Saxon law)
- a fine imposed by a king or lord on a subject who committed a serious crime.
- a fee demanded for granting a special privilege.
- Chiefly Scot. responsibility for a crime, fault, or misfortune; blame.
verb (used with object)
- Chiefly Scot. to blame for; declare guilty of.
wite
2[ wahyt ]
verb
- a present plural of wit 2.
yĐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of wite1
Example Sentences
Such naturalistic imagery is of a piece with the Middle English poetry this work invokes, as in the opening lines of its first poem, which finds the speaker browsing clothes at a shopping mall and navigating its womenâs bathroom: âthees wite skirtes / & orang sweters / i wont / inn the feedynge marte / wile mye vegetable partes bloome / inn the commen waye / a grackel inn the guarden rooste / the tall wymon wasching handes.â
âAnd even if I could wite, I couldnât wead them later!â
âWhen I was 5, I couldnât wead, I couldnât wite,â Nate said, mimicking his own early rhotacism.
Washington Post journalist Dan Zak also shared a video of a peaceful park, captioning it "Washington, D.C., is simply out of control," just days after the violent protests that harassed Republican National Convention attendees outside the Wite House.
Someone also spray-painted âwite prideâ on the side of Hubert Robertsâ Chevy Silverado in Vienna Township.
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