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What is inwit?

What is inwit? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (archaic) Inward knowledge or understanding.
  2. (obsolete) Conscience; inward sense of morality.
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Examples
That may be meant to suggest another problem entirely, Jake's agenbite of inwit, but it's less trivial than it seems, part of what Julius calls the aesthetics of ugliness.
The old agenbite of inwit stings and smarts, a hook in the gills even when line and rod are gone.
Many more examples appear later in Bevis of Hampton, Arthur and Merlin, Guy of Warwick, The Seven Sages, all from 1330, in Ayenbit of Inwit and the Midland Prose Psalter.
We obtain 5 instances of marriage in Ayenbit of Inwit and 3 in the Gloucester Chronicle as well as 5 examples of truage in Lazamon's Brut.
He deplored the loss of old Anglo-Saxon words like inwit, earthtillage and bodeword, replaced by conscience, agriculture and commandment.
Prior to Kodak, Lloyd was president of a consulting firm, Inwit Inc.

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