wite
verb
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Pronunciation: /waɪt/
noun
Etymology: From Middle English wite (“guilt, blameworthiness, blame, wrongdoing, misdeed, offense, punishment, retribution, fine, bote, customary rent”), from Old English wīte (“punishment, pain, torment”), from Proto-West Germanic *wītī, from Proto-Germanic *wītiją, from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“to see, find, behold”).
- Blame; responsibility; guilt.
“Nor I will not suffer mine indignation so to witwanton with fair justice as persuade me to put the wite on Witchland.”
- Punishment; penalty; fine; bote; mulct.
verb
Etymology: From Middle English witen, from Old English wītan (“to see, accuse, go, depart”), from Proto-West Germanic *wītan, from Proto-Germanic *wītaną, from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“to see, find, behold”).
- To go; go away; depart; perish; vanish.