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quin-

American  
  1. variant of quino- before a vowel.


quin British  
/ kwɪn /

noun

  1. US and Canadian word: quint.  short for quintuplet

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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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 Bacon, Francis

The man was stooping over the irna and muttering: "Okinchincha quin appani ilchi ilchi-a."

From In the Musgrave Ranges by Sayce, Conrad H. (Conrad Harvey)

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 Sayce, Conrad H. (Conrad Harvey)

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 Adams, Henry

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