51³Ō¹Ļ

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wite

1
or wyte

[ wahyt ]

noun

  1. (in Anglo-Saxon law)
    1. a fine imposed by a king or lord on a subject who committed a serious crime.
    2. a fee demanded for granting a special privilege.
  2. Chiefly Scot. responsibility for a crime, fault, or misfortune; blame.


verb (used with object)

wited, witing.
  1. Chiefly Scot. to blame for; declare guilty of.

wite

2

[ wahyt ]

verb

  1. a present plural of wit 2.
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51³Ō¹Ļ History and Origins

Origin of wite1

before 900; (noun) Middle English, Old English ·ÉÄ«³Ł±š penalty; cognate with Old High German ·ÉÄ«³ś¾±, Old Norse ±¹Ä«³Ł¾±; (v.) Middle English witen, Old English ·ÉÄ«³Ł²¹²Ō to blame
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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 women’s bathroom: ā€œthees 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.ā€

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ā€œAnd even if I could wite, I couldn’t wead them later!ā€

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ā€œWhen I was 5, I couldn’t wead, I couldn’t wite,ā€ Nate said, mimicking his own early rhotacism.

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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.

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Someone also spray-painted ā€œwite prideā€ on the side of Hubert Roberts’ Chevy Silverado in Vienna Township.

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