YWIS • DICTIONARY ONE.COM • Definition of Ywis

Ywis adv. Certainly; most likely; truly; probably. (Obs. or Archaic) ""Ywis," quod he, "it is full dear, I say."" "She answered me, "I-wisse, all their sport in the park is but a shadow to that pleasure that I find in Plato."" "A right good knight, and true of word ywis." Note: The common form iwis was often written with the prefix apart from the rest of the word and capitalized, as, I wis, I wisse, etc. The prefix was mistaken for the pronoun, I and wis, wisse, for a form of the verb wit to know. See Wis, and cf. Wit, to know. "Our ship, I wis, Shall be of another form than this."