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agenbite

noun
/əˈɡɛnbʌɪt/

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Middle English ayenbite, reflecting Old English agēn (“again, eft, back”).

  1. inherited from agēn
  2. learned borrowing from ayenbite

Definitions

  1. Remorse, ayenbite.

    • Speaking to me. They wash and tub and scrub. Agenbite of inwit. Conscience.
    • A special property of all social extensions of the body is that they return to plague the inventors in a kind of agenbite of outwit.'
    • But more to the point here, the agenbite is, if not a Jewish condition, then more pervasive among Jews than any other group, by a wide margin.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for agenbite. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA