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thine
[ thahyn ]
pronoun
- the possessive case of thou 1 used as a predicate adjective, after a noun or without a noun.
thine eyes; thine honor.
- that which belongs to thee:
Thine is the power and the glory.
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Origin of thine1
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Example Sentences
For my sake turn again to life and smile, nerving thy heart and trembling hand to do something to comfort other hearts than thine.
He also liked to say, without a trace of self-consciousness, “To thine own self be true.”
It was he who first said, If thine enemy hunger give him food, if he thirst give him drink.
If thine eye be sound the whole body is illumined; if the eye be diseased the whole body is in darkness.
Cast the beam from thine eye before noticing the mote in that of thy neighbour.
Thine is the spirit of universal liberty and love—of uncompromising hostility to every form of injustice and wrong.
The men said unto her, we will be blameless of this thine oath which thou hast made us swear.
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