care a whit
To care for something, to have interest or concern for something or someone.
whit
/wɪt/
noun 3prep 1name 1
Collocations
3ADJ.
advanced, beyond
VERB + WHIT
care, don't
WHIT + NOUN
attrac, augury, day, haue, john, less, season
Definitions
noun
1
The smallest part or particle imaginable; an iota.
Star. I beleeue we muſt leaue the killing out, when all is done. Bot. Not a whit: I haue a deuice to make all well.
Sadly behind the great age of rowdy self-advertisement in which their lot has fallen, they seem not to have advanced one whit beyond John the Baptist and the Apostles, 1800 years ago, in their notions of the way in which the metanoia, the change of mind of the ill-doer, is to be brought about.
prep
1
Pronunciation spelling of with.
noun
1
Whitsunday.
Holonyms: Pentecost, Whitsun, Whitsuntide, Whit (season)
2
The season of Whitsuntide.
Meronyms: Pentecost, Whitsun, Whit (day)
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Idioms & Phrases
Example Bank
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Star. I beleeue we muſt leaue the killing out, when all is done. Bot. Not a whit: I haue a deuice to make all well.
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Sadly behind the great age of rowdy self-advertisement in which their lot has fallen, they seem not to have advanced one whit beyond John the Baptist and the Apostles, 1800 years ago, in their notions
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But now another idea had obtruded itself, and was rapidly crowding his original intentions into the background. That American fortune was not to be sneezed at, nor was its possessor a whit less attrac
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Holonyms: Pentecost, Whitsun, Whitsuntide, Whit (season)
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Meronyms: Pentecost, Whitsun, Whit (day)
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A Bow Street Runner says "I knew a cove as talked the way you do – leastways, in the way of business I knew him! In fact, you remind me of him very strong […] He was on the dub-lay, and very clever wi
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In some senses, whit is marked as archaic, historical. Watch for register when choosing this word.
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