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betwixt
[ bih-twikst ]
betwixt
/ bɪˈtwɪkst /
preposition
- archaic.another word for between
- betwixt and betweenin an intermediate, indecisive, or middle position
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of betwixt1
Idioms and Phrases
- betwixt and between, neither the one nor the other; in a middle or unresolved position:
Not wanting to side with either her father or her mother, she was betwixt and between.
Example Sentences
When we speak against one capital vice, we ought to speak against its opposite; the middle betwixt both is the point for virtue.
Twenty acres of apple trees all in a orchard together, and twenty acres of strawberries set out betwixt and between the rows!
Education is the cultivation of a just and legitimate familiarity betwixt the mind and things.
Education is a just and legitimate familiarity betwixt the mind and things.
The hardened devils of Anzacs, who had taken cover betwixt the shell-proofs built of piles of stores, roared with laughter.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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