atwain

American  

[uh-twayn] / əˈtweɪn /

adverb

Archaic.

1. in twain; in two; apart.

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Etymology

Origin of atwain

Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400; see origin at a- ¹, twain

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Example Sentences

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atwain

The galleys hastened to give it a tow, but some cables were snapped atwain; and their efforts were in vain, for the sea and winds prevented the work.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 16 of 55 1609 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century by James Alexander Robertson

Cut then atwain With sword of wisdom, Son of Bharata!

From The Song celestial; or, Bhagabad-gîtâ (from the Mahâbhârata) being a discourse between Arjuna, prince of India, and the Supreme Being under the form of Krishna by Sir Edwin Arnold

So forcible, indeed, was this last one that I thought the lid was cleft atwain.

From Four Short Stories By Emile Zola by Émile Zola

Then sang Ulenspiegel: “When my darling’s tears I see My heart is torn atwain, ’Tis honey when she laughs for me, When she weeps, a pearl.

From The Legend of Ulenspiegel, Volume I (of 2) And Lamme Goedzak, and their Adventures Heroical, Joyous and Glorious in the Land of Flanders and Elsewhere by Charles Th?odore Henri de Coster

Her looks involuntarily followed the water's stately course, which, like a silver band, cut Paris atwain.

From A Love Episode by Émile Zola

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