"I wiss" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From an incorrect assumption made by editors where i-wiss, iwis (“certainly, for sure”) was hypercorrected to I wiss, as if wiss were a verb and I were the pronoun I. See also wiss, wis, iwis.",
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          "ref": "1904, Child, Sargent, Kittredge, English and Scottish popular ballads",
          "text": "To tell the truth, I'm well informed / Yon match is a wile; The sheriff, I wiss, devises this / Us archers to beguile.",
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        {
          "ref": "1631, James Ussher, Charles Richard Elrington, The whole works: Volume 4",
          "text": "Such wholesome directions doth the bishop of Rome give unto those that will be ruled by him : far different (I wiss) from that holy doctrine, wherewith the Church of Rome was at first seasoned by the apostles [...]",
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          "text": "I take him for some fiend, I wiss. — Grim, the Collier of Croydon, author unknown."
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        "surely, certainly; indeed, assuredly"
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        "(archaic or poetic) surely, certainly; indeed, assuredly"
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