witting
[adjective]
Synonyms: aware, alive, apprehensive, awake, cognizant, conscious, knowing, sensible, sentient, ware, voluntary, deliberate, intentional, unforced, unprescribed, willful, willing

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Antonyms: unwitting

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witting adverb & adjective. ['wɪtɪŋ] LME.
[from WIT verb + -ING².]
A. adverb. Wittingly; with awareness of what one is doing. Chiefly in conjunction with wilfully or willing. LME-E17.
b. adjective.
1. Aware, cognizant. Chiefly pred. E16.
■ N. Mailer The victim was not witting of the experiment.

2. Of an action: done consciously (and so with responsibility), intentional, deliberate. M16.
Times Literary Supplement Spiritualists..would emphasize the scientific..nature of their calling, despite the many exposures of witting and unwitting fraud.
b. Conscious as an agent; that is consciously (what is denoted by the noun). L17.
Newsweek There is no proof that the Chinese are witting accomplices in a bomb-building program.

■ wittingly adverb (a) with knowledge or awareness of what one is doing; consciously; deliberately; (b) (rare) skilfully; wisely: ME.

[TahlilGaran] English Dictionary ▲

witting noun. ['wɪtɪŋ] obsolete exc. Scot. & dial. ME.
[Partly from Old Norse vitand (in at minni, várri, etc., vitand to my, our, etc. knowledge); partly from WIT verb + -ING¹.]
1. The fact of knowing or being aware of something; knowledge, cognizance. Freq. in at one's witting, by one's witting, of one's witting, to one's witting, to or with one's knowledge; as (far as) one knows. ME.

2. sing. & (usu.) in pl. Knowledge obtained or (esp.) communicated; information, intelligence, news; notice, warning. Chiefly in get witting(s), have witting(s). LME.

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