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atwixt en · ADP

Pronunciation

  • /əˈtwɪkst/ (General-American, Received-Pronunciation)

Meanings

  1. (dialectal, qualifier:obsolete except UK) Synonym of betwixt (“between”).
    • Whate’er ye are, be sure an’ fix’t; / Opinions ne’er haltin’ atwixt; 1789, David Sillar, “Epistle to J. W****N, Student of Divinity, Edinburgh”, in Poems, Kilmarnock, page 59:
    • But with outrageous strokes did him restraine, / And with his body bard the way atwixt them twaine. 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 108:
    • […] the boat’s drove tight by the tide ’atwixt two tiers of barges. 1864 May – 1865 November, Charles Dickens, chapter 13, in Our Mutual Friend. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1865, →OCLC, page 139:
    • “I kin take him from right here ’atwixt his eyes,” said Jenks softly, and tapped his rifle significantly. 1909, Zane Grey, chapter 18, in The Last Trail, New York: Grosset & Dunlap, page 218:

Synonyms

'twixt · betwixt · twixt