'twixt
See also: twixt
English
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Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /twɪkst/
Preposition
'twixt
- (literary) Contraction of betwixt.
- c. 1596-97, William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act III scene ii:
- Since I have your good leave to go away,
- I will make haste: but, till I come again,
- No bed shall e'er be guilty of my stay,
- Nor rest be interposer 'twixt us twain.
- 1851, Sojourner Truth & Frances Dana Barker Gage, Ain't I a Woman?:
- I think that 'twixt the negroes of the South and the women at the North, all talking about rights, the white men will be in a fix pretty soon.
- c. 1596-97, William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act III scene ii:
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