wise – English noun declension

English noun forms of wise

Noun: wise
Singularwise
Pluralwises

Sample Sentences

  • In such wise that all the beasts, great and small, came to the court save Reynard the Fox. [1481, William Caxton, The History of Reynard the Fox^(https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Historye_of_Reynard_the_Foxe/capitulo_.primo._(2)):]
  • Now the birth of Iesus Christ was on this wise: When as his mother Mary was espoused to Ioseph (before they came together) shee was found with childe of the holy Ghost. [1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Matthew 1:18:]
  • […] the prize
  • Dead Greece vouchsafes to living eyes, —
  • Her Art for ever in fresh wise
  • From hour to hour rejoicing me. [1850, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, The Burden of Nineveh, lines 2–5:]
  • A riven hood was pulled across his eyes;
  • The token of him being upon this wise
  • Made for a sign of Lust. [1866, Algernon Swinburne, A Ballad of Life, lines 28–30:]
  • And within a few minutes the rest of us were on our way too, judiciously instructed by Parkapple and the Brighton official, and disposed of in two taxi-cabs, the drivers of which were ordered to convey us to Rottingdean in such wise that each set his load of humanity at different parts of the village and at the same time that the bus was due to arrive at the hotel. [1926, J. S. Fletcher, Sea Fog, page 308:]
  • Meantime a serious question came up for discussion.[…]The discussion arose somewhat in this wise. The President of the Society was Mr. Hills, proprietor of the Thames Iron Works. He was a puritan. […] [1927, M[ohandas] K[aramchand] Gandhi, chapter XVIII, in Mahadev Desai, transl., The Story of My Experiments with Truth: Translated from the Original in Gujarati, volume I, Ahmedabad, Gujarat: Navajivan Press, →OCLC:]
  • Then, at least, we shall be able to program consciousness in such wise that it cannot be numbed nor distracted by the Narcissus illusions of the entertainment world that beset mankind when he encounters himself extended in his own gimmickry. [1964, Marshall McLuhan, chapter 6, in Understanding Media, 2nd edition:]

Etymology

From Middle English wise, from Old English wīse, from Proto-Germanic *wīsō. Cognate with Dutch wijze, German Weise, Norwegian vis, Swedish visa, vis, Italian guisa, Spanish guisa. Compare -wise. Doublet of guise. See: Middle English Nouns 'wise', Old English Nouns 'wīse', Dutch Nouns 'wijze', German Nouns 'Weise', Swedish Nouns 'visa', Italian Nouns 'guisa', Spanish Nouns 'guisa'.

Verbs referencing "wise"

Swedish Nouns vis, Catalan Nouns guisa, Galician Nouns guisa, Italian Nouns guisa, Portuguese Nouns guisa, Spanish Nouns guisa.