Meaning of I wiss | Babel Free

Definitions

surely, certainly; indeed, assuredly

archaic, not-comparable, poetic

Examples

“To tell the truth, I'm well informed / Yon match is a wile; The sheriff, I wiss, devises this / Us archers to beguile.”

“Such wholesome directions doth the bishop of Rome give unto those that will be ruled by him : far different (I wiss) from that holy doctrine, wherewith the Church of Rome was at first seasoned by the apostles [...]”

“I take him for some fiend, I wiss. — Grim, the Collier of Croydon, author unknown.”

CEFR level