Smit is fairly rare these days. COCA has no citations. See also:books.google.com/ngrams/…

@tunny: Certainly, but what does that tell us?

That it's probably not a good word to use.

@tunny: Why not?

@tunny: Why do you see little point? The OP is obviously not writing in a low register, so what most native speakers would use in most genres (which will be mostly pop culture) matters little. Besides, the OP may very well be a native speaker.

Oh, hello!

@tunny I think smit is as nice a word to use as smitten, and no less appropriate.

@Cerberus. COCA covers a wide range of spoken and written English, very little of which is 'pop culture'. The last use of the past participle smit in the Corpus of Historical American is 1936, one of only three post-1900 citations. The word is dead. I did not say that the OP was not a native speaker. S/he posted the question here as someone who wanted to learn the answer, a learner..

@tunny First of all, why use a regional corpus?

Secondly, I have provided a more recent example in my answer.

I could find several others if I wanted.

Lastly, even if its last recorded use had been from 1936, which it isn't, why shouldn't the OP use it?

The intended style of the linguistic utterance is of a kind that permits or even encourages older words.

Your 'recent example' was published in 1753.

As to the OP's being a learner, very well, but I see no reason why learners shouldn't use lesser used words in the appropriate genre.

Oh, was it?

Then Google has betrayed me. But I can find other examples: that one example matters little.

It doesn't matter if you can find a couple more examples. If you are going to suggest a word that is no longer use by 99.99*% of the population, then at least note this when you make the suggestion.

The OP is asking for literary language.

I don't think what most people among a wider population use is very relevant.

@tunny Besides, I labelled it "perhaps archaic". I don't see anything wrong with my suggestion.

I have edited the question, hopefully clarifying what I was expecting to get out of the answers

Hi!

Hello. I didn't mean to stir up trouble XD

Haha don't worry.

We're just having a civilised discussion.

@Cerberus. 'perhaps archaic' is rather weak for a word that has hardly been used for over a century. Anyway, we are not going to agree here, so I'll leave the field.

I don't think it is weak at all in the context of the question.

But you are right, we have said all there is to be said.

Thanks guys for hashing this out. I appreciated all the comments. They helped me understand more about the word, including "smit", which I never knew could be used

@Gilbrithor. You didn't stir up anything. Your question was valid and useful. You can't help it if two of us disagree strongly about the appropriate answer.

Quite so.