'twixt

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English

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twixt

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /twɪkst/
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Rhymes: -ɪkst

Preposition

'twixt

(archaic, literary) Contraction of betwixt.
- c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :
  Since I have your good leave to go away,
  I will make haste: but, till I come again,
  No bed shall e’er be guilty of my stay,
  Nor rest be interposer ’twixt us twain.
- 1851, Sojourner Truth, Frances Dana Barker Gage, Ain't I a Woman?:
  I think that ’twixt the negroes of the South and the women at the North, all talking about rights, the white men will be in a fix pretty soon.

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