Pronunciations
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/twɪkst/
Pronunciation notes
- General-American
- Received-Pronunciation
Preposition
Synonym of betwixt (“between”).
Usage- Archaic
- Literary
- Poetic
- Synonyms
- Examples
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The roote of Hyachinthe is drie in the firſt degree, and colde in the ſeconde: but the ſeede is drie in the thirde degree, Yet temperate twixt heate and colde.
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Since I haue your good leaue to go avvay, / I vvill make haſt. But till I come againe, / No bed ſhall ere [e'er] be guilty of my ſtay, / Nor reſt be interpoſer tvvixt vs tvvain.
I haue bedymn'd / The Noone tide Sun, call'd forth the mutenous vvindes, / And tvvixt the greene Sea, and the azur'd vault / Set roaring vvarre: […]
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[H]e had himſelfe / The Lands and VVaters, ’twixt your Throne and his, / Meaſur’d, to looke vpon you; vvhom he loues […]
O! thou thrice happy Shire, confined so to bee / Twixt two so famous Floods, as Mersey is, and Dee.
I then tooke a ſtreight / That gaue my ſelfe, and ſome fevv more receipt / Tvvixt Scylla, and Charybdis; […]
From Chil-manor, vve rode to Moyovvn, eight Farſangs, or foure and tvventie miles, tvvixt vvhich tvvo Tovvnes is a high impregnable Mount, at vvhoſe top has ſtood a Caſtle, ſo fortified by nature and induſtrie, that it vvas thought impregnable.
Thither the Knight his courſe did ſtear, / To keep the peace ’tvvixt Dog and Bear; […]
The feeble Bark of Life he [God] ſaves, / Amidſt the fury of Tempeſtuous VVaves, / From all the dangers he foreſees, or fears; / Yet ev'ry hour ’tvvixt Sylla and Charibdis ſtears?
In thy nocturnal Rove, one Moment halt, / ’Tvvixt Stage and Stage, of Riot, and Cabal; […]
I thik dat ’twixt de niggers of de Souf and de womin at de Norf, all talkin’ ’bout rights, de white men will be in a fix pretty soon.
The host is rushing ’twixt night and day, / And where is there hope or deed as fair? / Caolte tossing his burning hair, / And Niamh calling Away, come away.