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Middle English
Etymology
From on + two, already a phrase in Old English as on twā.
Adverb
atwo (not comparable)
- In two; in twain; asunder.
- Synonym: atwein
1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Pardoners Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales, ,
→OCLC; republished in [
William Thynne], editor,
The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, ,
:
[
Richard Grafton for]
Iohn Reynes ,
1542,
→OCLC, lines
388-91:
Fordronke, as he sat on his bench upright.
Ther cam a privee theef men clepeth Deeth,
That in this contree al the peple sleeth,
And with his spere he smoot his herte atwo- (please add an English translation of this quotation)