Meanings of witting in anglès

Sharif was attentive to his self-interest if not always witting about how to secure it.

What would happen to ye if the bailies should come to get witting of it?

Some of these tests, it's worth pointing out, were conducted by Dow on half-witting human volunteers.

I have seen Sir Tristram fight, said Sir Palomides, but never Sir Launcelot to my witting.

I am not witting of such things.'

Certes, said he, nay, to my witting.

Biden's audience was partially African-American, and the comment was seen as a witting or unwitting reference to slavery.

We have witting cutouts, unwitting cutouts.

People complain of the lack of power to concentrate, not witting that they may acquire the power, if they choose.

It was not just winning that counted, but winning by out-witting "the system" was a still deeper joy.

Continuation of high fossil fuel emissions, given current knowledge of the consequences, would be an act of extraordinary witting intergenerational injustice.

It is, said King Lot, King Bors of Gaul; I marvel how they came into this country without witting of us all.

Complacently he sat and smiled, little witting that his son's ordeal was imminent, and that his son's ordeal was to be his own.

You feel that you are capable of out-witting your uncle, and you take the earliest opportunity of "talking it over" with Alice.

Thus Faustus, to so many a snare of death, had now, neither willing nor witting it, begun to loosen that wherein I was taken.

Thus, that Faustus, to so many a snare of death, had now neither willing nor witting it, begun to loosen that wherein I was taken.