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agenbite en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /əˈɡɛnbʌɪt/

Etymology

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

Meanings

1. (qualifier:often purposely archaic, uncountable) Remorse, ayenbite.
   • 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. 2008, David Koffler, How Jewy Should We Want Our Presidents To Be?:
   • 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.' 1998, Marshall McLuhan, The Agenbite of Outwit:
   • […]habitude of writers challenged by the affliction of an over-agenbite and inwit to match. 2005, James Rother, A Review of An Lauterbach:
   • Speaking to me. They wash and tub and scrub. Agenbite of inwit. Conscience. 1922 February 2, James Joyce, Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC:

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