wit
noun
the keen perception and cleverly apt expression of those connections between ideas that awaken amusement and pleasure.
had wist
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past perfectof wit.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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It had been better I had wist nought thereof.
From All's Well Alice's Victory by M. Lewin
Ah madam, said Sir Launcelot, an I had wist ye would have been so soon accorded with him I would not have made such haste unto you.
From Le Mort d'Arthur: Volume 2 by Sir Thomas Malory
Wherefore if ye had wist, what this saying meaneth: I require mercy, and not sacrifice, ye would never have condemned innocents.
From The first New Testament printed in English by
And if I be ordained to die a shameful death, welcome be it; but an I had wist of this death that I am deemed unto, I should never have been yolden.
From Le Mort d'Arthur: Volume 2 by Sir Thomas Malory
No, I was thinking of some I had wist long ago: and in especial of Dame Isabel the Queen, and other that were about her.
From In Convent Walls The Story of the Despensers by M. (Madelaine) Irwin
