quin-
variant of quino- before a vowel.
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/ kwɪn /
noun
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Per-roneau's Portrait of the Painter Guille- quin brought 250,000 francs.
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For envy is a gadding passion, and walketh the streets, and doth not keep home: Non est curiosus, quin idem sit malevolus.
From The Essays of Francis Bacon by Francis Bacon
God must be proved by the senses like any other concrete thing; "nihil est in intellectu quin prius fuerit in sensu"; even if Aristotle had not affirmed the law, Thomas would have discovered it.
From Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres by Henry Adams
They pronunce not i in is and quis, id and quid, in and quin, as they pronunce it in mihi, tibi, sibi, ibi, etc., and therfoer not right.
From Of the Orthographie and Congruitie of the Britan Tongue A Treates, noe shorter than necessarie, for the Schooles by Henry Benjamin Wheatley
Our powers owe much of their energy to our hopes; possunt quin posse vidertur.'
From Life of Johnson, Volume 1 1709-1765 by George Birkbeck Norman Hill
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