"witan" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "Learned borrowing from Old English witan, plural of wita (“wise man”).",
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          "ref": "1833, S. A. Dunham, Europe in the Middle Ages, Green & Longman, page 48",
          "text": "But in estimating the powers of the witan, we must not lose sight of the fact, that the king sometimes assumes a tone of superiority scarcely consistent with its independence.",
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          "ref": "1889, Hannis Taylor, The Origin and Growth of the English Constitution",
          "text": "The folkland, the national fund, was administered and conveyed conjointly by the king and the witan.",
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        "The Anglo-Saxon national council or witenagemot."
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  "etymology_text": "Learned borrowing from Old English witan, plural of wita (“wise man”).",
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