Whit (?), n. [OE. wight, wiht, AS. wiht a creature, a thing. See Wight, and cf. Aught, Naught.]
The smallest part or particle imaginable; a bit; a jot; an iota; -- generally used in an adverbial phrase in a negative sentence.
"Samuel told him every
whit."
1 Sam. iii. 18. "Every
whit as great."
South.
So shall I no whit be behind in duty.
Shak.
It does not me a whit displease.
Cowley.
© Webster 1913.