Citations:inwit

English citations of inwit

• 2004 Sep, Christopher Hitchens, “The Immortal”, in Atlantic Monthly‎^[1]:

  His subsequent interest in Shintoism and Buddhism lacks the mordancy and introspection (the "agenbite of inwit," as Joyce liked to put it) of his earlier hermeneutic investigations.

• 2008 December 12, Peggy Noonan, “Rectitude Chic: The first Christmas in the age of restraint”, in Wall Street Journal‎^[2]:

  Economic collapse concentrates the mind. Some of it is maybe "agenbite of inwit," the Middle English phrase meaning remorse of conscience.