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
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
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
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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