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4 lettersPronunciation /ˈwiːn/Sorted eenwStarts with WEnds with N0 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. Doubt; conjecture.

Word origin

From Middle English wene, from Old English wēn, wēna (“hope, weening, expectation”), from Proto-West Germanic *wāni, from Proto-Germanic *wēniz, *wēnǭ (“hope, expectation”), from Proto-Indo-European *wenh₁- (“to strive, love, want, reach, win”). Cognate with Dutch waan (“delusion”), Afrikaans waan (“delusion”), German Wahn (“illusion, false hope”).

Used in a sentence

  • And when they will fight they will shock them together in a plump; that if there be 20000 men, men shall not ween that there be scant 10000.
  • Then sayde Peter unto hym: Perissh thou and thy money togedder. For thou wenest that the gyfte of god maye be obteyned with money?
  • Wise men in old time would ween themselves fools; Fools now in new time will ween themselves wise.

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