Jot

/d͡ʒɒt/ · noun

Meaning

The smallest letter or stroke of any writing; an iota..

Definitions by Sense

1. The smallest letter or stroke of any writing; an iota.
2. (by extension, chiefly in the negative) A small, or the smallest, amount of a thing; a bit, a whit.
3. A brief and hurriedly written note.
4. (transitive) Chiefly followed by down: to write (something) quickly; to make a brief note of (something).
5. (transitive, obsolete except British, dialectal) To jerk or jolt (something); to jog.
6. (obsolete, rare) A jerk, a jolt.

Example Sentences

This bond doth giue thee here no iote of blood, / The vvords expreſly are a pound of fleſh: / Take then thy bond, take thou thy pound of fleſh, / But in the cutting of it, if thou doſt ſhed / One drop of Chriſtian blood, thy lands and goods / Are by the lavves of Venice, confiſcate / Vnto the State of Venice.

For verily I ſay vnto you, Till heauen and earth paſſe, one iote or one tittle, ſhall in no wiſe paſſe from the law, till all be fulfilled.

Of old, men said, "Sin not; / By every line and jot / Ye shall abide; man's heart is false and vile."

He didn’t care a jot for his work.

Sir, the People muſt haue their Voiyes, / Neyther vvill they bate / One iot of Ceremonie.

After this I ſpent a great deal of Time and Pains to make me an Umbrella; I vvas indeed in great vvant of one, and had a great mind to make one; I had ſeen them made in the Braſils, vvhere they are very uſeful in the great Heats vvhich are there: And I felt the Heats every jot as great here, and greater too, being nearer the Equinox; […]

[T]hough Richard [III] vvas purſued and killed as a uſurper, the Solomon that ſucceeded him [Henry VII of England], vvas not a jot leſs a tyrant.

"If they had uncles enough to fill all Cheapside," cried Bingley, "it would not make them one jot less agreeable."

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• jots
• jotting
• jotted

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