| 词汇 | againbite agenbite of inwit |
| 词源 | againbite [agenbite] of inwit. James Joyce revived the ex- pression agenbite [againbite] of inwit in Ulysses. It is a good ex- ample of Anglo-Saxon replacements of foreign words, meaning the “remorse of conscience” and originally being the prose translation of a French moral treatise (The Ayenbite of Ynwit) made by Dan Michel in 1340. |
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