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Definitions for: Ywis
Webster (1913) Definition: Y*wis", adv. [OE. ywis, iwis, AS. gewis certain; akin to
D. gewis, G. gewiss, and E. wit to know. See Wit to know,
and Y-.]
Certainly; most likely; truly; probably. [Obs. or Archaic]
``Ywis,'' quod he, ``it is full dear, I say.''
--Chaucer.
She answered me, ``I-wisse, all their sport in the park
is but a shadow to that pleasure that I find in
Plato.'' --Ascham.
A right good knight, and true of word ywis. --Spenser.
Note: The common form iwis was often written with the prefix
apart from the rest of the word and capitalized, as, I
wis, I wisse, etc. The prefix was mistaken for the
pronoun, I and wis, wisse, for a form of the verb wit
to know. See Wis, and cf. Wit, to know.
Our ship, I wis, Shall be of another form than
this. --Longfellow.
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