"inwit" meaning in English

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          "text": "Speaking to me. They wash and tub and scrub. Agenbite of inwit. Conscience.",
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          "ref": "1960, Marcia Davenport, Constant Image:",
          "text": "\"I knew that was so. Every time that inwit twanged ─ I have conscience like you, reverend sir!\"",
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