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Synonyms for whit

Grammar : Noun
Spell : hwit, wit
Phonetic Transcription : ʰwɪt, wɪt

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Définition of whit

Origin :
  • "smallest particle," 12c., in na whit "no amount," from Old English nan wiht, from wiht "amount," originally "person, human being" (see wight).
  • noun very tiny bit
Example sentences :
  • They all came, and they looked not one whit better than on the Monday evening before.
  • Extract from : « Ester Ried Yet Speaking » by Isabella Alden
  • "This room looks every whit as grand as it used to look to me when I was a boy," he said.
  • Extract from : « The Yates Pride » by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
  • But the colonel did not abate one whit of his craft or caution.
  • Extract from : « The Rock of Chickamauga » by Joseph A. Altsheler
  • Strange to say, they appeared not a whit more afraid than the birds or hares.
  • Extract from : « The Field of Ice » by Jules Verne
  • But yet his horse was not a whit Inclined to tarry there; For why?
  • Extract from : « Graded Poetry: Second Year » by Various
  • Dick and Tom Dare were not a whit behind any in their expressions of delight.
  • Extract from : « The Dare Boys of 1776 » by Stephen Angus Cox
  • Not all my kicks and cuffs and beatings had sufficed one whit to repulse him.
  • Extract from : « Ruggles of Red Gap » by Harry Leon Wilson
  • For all that, he stood his ground not a whit the less resolutely, and looked on undismayed.
  • Extract from : « Barnaby Rudge » by Charles Dickens
  • Yet these objections would not be one whit more preposterous than the objections which have been made to the 'Origin of Species.'
  • Extract from : « A Critical Examination Of The Position Of Mr. Darwin's Work, "On The Origin Of Species," In Relation To The Complete Theory Of The Causes Of The Phenomena Of Organic Nature » by Thomas H. Huxley
  • It matters not one whit whether this sterility is universal, or whether it exists only in a single case.
  • Extract from : « A Critical Examination Of The Position Of Mr. Darwin's Work, "On The Origin Of Species," In Relation To The Complete Theory Of The Causes Of The Phenomena Of Organic Nature » by Thomas H. Huxley

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