WHIT, noun [Latin] A point; a jot; the smallest part or particle imaginable. It is used without a preposition. He is not a whit the wiser for experience. It does not me a whit displease. The regular construction would be by a whit or in a whit In these phrases, a whit may be interpreted by in the least, in the smallest degree.
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