wit
noun
the keen perception and cleverly apt expression of those connections between ideas that awaken amusement and pleasure.
will wit
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future tenseof wit.future tense
Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
Example Sentences
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What will wit avail people who don't speak, or craft those who have no affairs to transact?
From A Discourse Upon the Origin and the Foundation Of The Inequality Among Mankind by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
And if that you will wit how that they shall find their way, after that I have heard say I shall tell you.
From The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Sir John Mandeville
Sir, if it please you, I do well enou', And the better that you will wit.
From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 2 by William Carew Hazlitt
