witting
adjective
[ ˈwɪtɪŋ ]
• done in full awareness or consciousness; deliberate.
• "the witting and unwitting complicity of the institutions"
Origin:
late Middle English: from wit2 + -ing2.
wit
verb
• have knowledge.
• "I addressed a few words to the lady you wot of"
• that is to say (used to be more specific about something already referred to).
• "the textbooks show an irritating parochialism, to wit an almost total exclusion of papers not in English"
Origin:
Old English witan, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch weten and German wissen, from an Indo-European root shared by Sanskrit veda ‘knowledge’ and Latin videre ‘see’.
