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Definition of wite in English English dictionary
- To blame; to regard as guilty
As help me God, I shal þee nevere smyte! / Þat I have doon, it is þyself to wyte.
- To go, go away, depart, perish, vanish
- Blame, responsibility
So many lordes and barons of this reame were displeasyd, for her children were so lost, and many put the wyte on Merlyn more than on Arthur .
- Blame; reproach
- To reproach; to blame; to censure; also, to impute as blame
- Blame; fault
- wite-out
- Wite-Out is a trademark for a line of correction fluid manufactured by the French corporation BIC
- blood-wite
- A penalty for committing bloodshed, specifically under Anglo-Saxon law a penalty to be paid to the king or aldorman as distinct from the wergild
- witing
- Present participle of wite
- witing
- Obsolete spelling of witting
- witing
- Knowledge
- wited
- obsolete, past of wite
- wites
- obsolete, third-person singular of wite
- witing
- obsolete, alternative spelling of witting
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() From Old English wītan, derived from Old English wite.Resimler
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