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wittingly, adv.|ˈwɪtɪŋlɪ|
Forms: see wit v.1 A. 6 and weetingly; also 4 wytindeliche.
[f. witting ppl. a. + -ly2.]
1. With knowledge or awareness of what one is doing; knowingly, consciously; often implying ‘designedly, deliberately, intentionally’. (In earlier use freq. conjoined with wilfully or willingly.)
a1340Hampole Psalter xciv. 11 Þai erre in hert..witandly & wilfully. 1340Ayenb. 8 Þet we ne wreþþi uader ne moder wytindeliche. a1390Wyclif Rom. Prol., Greuousli to han trespassid, and witendely. c1425Audelay XI Pains Hell 114 in O.E. Misc. 214 Þai foreswere ham wettanly. 1500–20Dunbar Poems xc. 21 Thow art nocht abill remissioun for to get, Wittandlie and thow suld ane syn forȝet. 1535Joye Apol. Tindale (Arb.) 23 Not willingly and wetingly to slip ouer siche fautes. 1583Stubbes Anat. Abus. ii. (1882) 14 If it were proued that he killed him wittingly, willingly and prepensedly. 1602Shakes. Ham. v. i. 13 She drown'd her selfe wittingly. 1603Knolles Hist. Turks (1621) 524 After him..succeeded many valiant men..whom for breuitee I wittingly passe ouer. 1670Act 22 Chas. II c. 1 §4 Every person who shall wittingly and willingly suffer any such Conventicle..in his..House. 1713Derham Phys.-Theol. v. ix. 347, I have endeavoured to say as little wittingly as I could. 1809W. Irving Knickerb. iii. ix. (1861) 109, I would not wittingly dishonour my work by a single false⁓hood, misrepresentation, or prejudice. 1851Gloss. Cumberld., Wittenly, wottenly; designedly. 1872Proctor Ess. Astron. ii. 26, I would by no means desire to imply that Sir John Herschel..wittingly overlooked known facts. 1872Freeman Engl. Const. ii. 105 Wittingly or unwittingly, much of our best modern legislation has..been a case of advancing by the process of going back.
†2. With knowledge; skilfully; wisely. Obs. rare.
1375Barbour Bruce xi. 594 Emang thame that fechtand weir, That thame defendit so vittandly. 1657Narr. late Parlt. 28 As was learnedly & wittingly intimated by the Speaker. |