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English
Etymology
From an incorrect assumption made by editors where i-wiss, iwis (“certainly, for sure”) was hypercorrected to I wiss, as if wiss were a verb and I were the pronoun I. See also wiss, wis, iwis.
Adverb
I wiss (not comparable)
- (archaic or poetic) surely, certainly; indeed, assuredly
1904, Child, Sargent, Kittredge, English and Scottish popular ballads:To tell the truth, I'm well informed / Yon match is a wile; The sheriff, I wiss, devises this / Us archers to beguile.
1631, James Ussher, Charles Richard Elrington, The whole works: Volume 4:Such wholesome directions doth the bishop of Rome give unto those that will be ruled by him : far different (I wiss) from that holy doctrine, wherewith the Church of Rome was at first seasoned by the apostles [...]
- I take him for some fiend, I wiss. — Grim, the Collier of Croydon, author unknown.