What's the difference between inwit and unwit?

Inwit


Definition:

  • (n.) Inward sense; mind; understanding; conscience.

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Unwit


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To deprive of wit.
  • (n.) Want of wit or understanding; ignorance.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We’re going to splice this together with a tweet from Tory MP David Gauke this week in which he unwittingly revealed that the Star Wars set at Pinewood Studios features a brand new Death Star .
  • (2) His marker, it emerged, had been the subject of an unwitting bodycheck by his captain.
  • (3) The repurposing of the devices of unwitting users in foreign jurisdictions for covert attacks in the interests of one country’s national priorities is a dangerous precedent – contrary to international norms, and in violation of widespread domestic laws prohibiting the unauthorised use of computing and networked systems,” they conclude.
  • (4) My elder daughter unwittingly taught me, the first time I took her to one.
  • (5) She added: "Last year's revelations show that unencrypted communications can mean that journalists may be unwittingly handing over their contacts, footage or material, against their will."
  • (6) In their zeal to tout their faith in the public square, conservatives in Oklahoma may have unwittingly opened the door to a wide range of religious groups, including Satanists who are seeking to put their own statue next to a Ten Commandments monument outside the statehouse.
  • (7) It is the unwitting result of our use of fossil fuels.
  • (8) Bogdanor guessed that Green may have been arrested because he had 'unwittingly' disclosed sensitive security information.
  • (9) The foreign secretary, David Miliband, whose family roots are of Polish Jewish origin, has led the attacks on Cameron and his allies, perhaps unwittingly thrusting the debate over the second world war in eastern Europe into the early stages of a British election campaign.
  • (10) Failure to recognize a child's fabrication can subject the family to unnecessary legal action and unwittingly support the use of a similar manipulative technique by other susceptible children.
  • (11) In explaining both the nature of the material shut away and the causes of its being so, attention is called to the role that a child's parents play, wittingly or unwittingly.
  • (12) Dual prescribing or additional use of nonprescription salicylates are some causes of unwitting long term toxicity.
  • (13) He added: "It is now clear that the BBC failed the students, who were unwitting human fodder used to fulfil John Sweeney and his wife's personal ambition to film inside North Korea.
  • (14) But coyote is also used to denote a middleman, particularly one who takes advantage of unwitting farmers.
  • (15) All too unwittingly but effectively and increasingly, developed world citizens contribute to the rundown of the planet's natural resources that sustain everyone's welfare.
  • (16) England’s captain has worn the armband with distinction in many ways here in Brazil, but he played an unwitting part in both goals and it would be no way to end his international career.
  • (17) In the words of Samuel D. Gross: "The cases which may reasonably require and those which may not require interference with the knife are not always so clearly and distinctly defined as not to give rise, in very many instances, to the most serious apprehension ... that, while the surgeon endeavors to avoid Scylla, he may not unwittingly run into Charybdis, mutilating a limb that might have been saved, and endangering life by the retention of one that should have been promptly amputated."
  • (18) An Australian couple were unwittingly conned into becoming multi-million dollar drug mules after winning a dream trip to Canada with new luggage thrown in.
  • (19) But everything about such attacks is murky; finding the perpetrators is difficult if not impossible, as the architecture of the internet allows for hackers to mask their attack through unwitting users and anonymisation software.
  • (20) The unwitting vaginal and vulvar use of 5-FU in pregnancy did not result in significant morbidity or mortality; expectant management of such pregnancies should be considered.

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