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English
Preposition
'mongst
- (archaic, poetic) Aphetic form of amongst.
1647, Henry More, “ Antipsychopannychia or The Third Book of the Song of the Soul: Containing a Confutation of the Sleep of the Soul after Death. The Præexistency of the Soul, .”, in Alexander B Grosart, editor, The Complete Poems of Dr. Henry More (1614–1687) (Chertsey Worthies’ Library), ">…] Edinburgh University Press;
Thomas and Archibald Constable,
] for private circulation, published
1878,
→OCLC, stanza 78,
page 126, column 1:
No more do souls of men. For stories sayen
Well known 'mongst countrey folk, our spirits fly,