atwain

American  

[uh-tweyn] / əˈtweɪn /

adverb

Archaic.

1. in twain; in two; apart.

---

Etymology

Origin of atwain

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

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

atwain

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

Such smiling rogues as these, Like rats, oft bite the holy cords atwain.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Noah Webster

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

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

Either through the carelessness of the steersman, or because the rudder was out of order, or the sea too heavy, the rudder parted atwain, and the boat was without other help than that of heaven.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 24 of 55 1630-34 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