| adv. | 1. | Certainly; most likely; truly; probably." Ywis," quod he, "it is full dear, I say." - Chaucer. She answered me, " I-wisse, all their sport in the park is but a shadow to that pleasure that I find in Plato." - Ascham. A right good knight, and true of word ywis. - Spenser. Our ship, I wis, Shall be of another form than this. - Longfellow. |