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Meanings of mother wit in English

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Sound practical judgment.

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        Usage of mother wit in English
        1
        He was rather a silent man, though not deficient in mother wit.
        South Wind
        2
        She hesitated, but her mother wit soon extricated her from the difficulty.
        Medoline Selwyn's Work
        3
        Where shall we look for mother wit?-orsay, common suckling's instinct?
        Beauchamp's Career — Volume 5
        4
        Rufus was not largely endowed with mother wit, or prudence.
        A Busy Year at the Old Squire's
        5
        Will my caterpillars show a little of his mother wit?
        The Wonders of Instinct: Chapters in the Psychology of Insects
        6
        As long as wit is mother wit it can be as wild as it pleases.
        Orthodoxy
        7
        The scene at the "Rainbow" inn is bristling with mother wit.
        Halleck's New English Literature
        8
        Suddenly her mother wit came to the rescue.
        Ethel Hollister's Second Summer as a Campfire Girl
        9
        Then, good Cuthbert, thou wilt be forced to trust to thine own mother wit for a livelihood.
        The Lost Treasure of Trevlyn: A Story of the Days of the Gunpowd...
        10
        Use your mother wit to escape it.
        The lady elizabeth
        11
        I've as much mother wit as he.'
        The Heir of Redclyffe
        12
        However, if you don't fight your way back, you'll be just another rich toad with no mother wit.
        A nose for justice
        13
        And to this I was not guided by mother wit, but by a surer and a sadder token.
        Moonfleet
        14
        John is nineteen years of age, mulatto, spare made, but not lacking in courage, mother wit or perseverance.
        The Underground Railroad / A Record of Facts, Authentic Narrativ...
        15
        The thing to do was to find the girl, and trust to pluck and mother wit for the rest.
        The Fur Bringers: A Story of the Canadian Northwest
        16
        Nor was he all muscle by a great deal; he was well balanced as to mother wit and shrewdness.
        The Underground Railroad / A Record of Facts, Authentic Narrativ...
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