quin-
variant of quino- before a vowel.
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/ kwɪn /
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Per-roneau's Portrait of the Painter Guille- quin brought 250,000 francs.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
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
He said this three times, moved the irna to a new place, and then began a new curse: "Purtulinga apina-a intaapa inkirilia quin appani intarpakala-a."
From In the Musgrave Ranges by Conrad H. (Conrad Harvey) Sayce
He can laugh pungently enough at the style of oratory prevailing in the courts— nilne pudet capiti non posse pericula cano pellere, quin tepidum hoc optes audire 'decenter'. 'fur es', ait Pedio.
From Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal by Harold Edgeworth Butler
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