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Middle English
Etymology
From the Bible, 1 Corinthians 15:52, translating the Latin in ictu oculi, from the Greek ἐν ῥιπῇ ὀφθαλμοῦ.
Prepositional phrase
in the twynklyng of an iȝe
- (idiomatic) Immediately; instantaneously.
- c. 1300, Anonymous, St. Bernard's Saws, MS. Digby 86, "Ubi sonnt…":
- And in a twincling of an eye / Hoere soules weren forloren
- c. 1303, Robert of Brunne, Handlyng Synne, "Sacrylage":
- And, as yn twynkelyng of an ye, / Yn-to þe cherche gun þey flye
- 1382, 1395, Wycliffe, Bible, 1 Corinthis 15:52:
- c. 1385, Chaucer, The Compleynt of Mars:
- And then hir Ioye, for oght I can espye, / Ne lasteth not the twinkeling of an ye
- c. 1387-1400, ———, The Canterbury Tales, "The Clerk's Prologue":
- But deeth, that wol nat suffre us dwellen heer, / But as it were a twynklyng of an ye
Descendants
References
- “twinkling(e)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 28 November 2021.