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English
Noun
twynne (plural twynnes)
- Obsolete spelling of twin.
- c. 1600, Parish Church of Leeds, 1891, The Registers of the Parish Church of Leeds: 1572 to 1612, page 153,
- Thomas, child of James Smythe, without Lydynte (being one of the twynnes).
- 1626 June 2, Jane Cornwallis, 1842, Richard Griffin (editor), The Private Correspondence of Jane Lady Cornwallis; 1613-1644, page 158,
- I comfort myself in that observacion he makes of the time, as hoping that I shall hear by the next that we are twynnes as well in recovering as in falling sick, .
Verb
twynne
- Obsolete spelling of twin.
1613–1614 (date written), John Fletcher, William Shakspeare, The Two Noble Kinsmen: , London: Tho Cotes, for Iohn Waterson; , published 1634, →OCLC, (please specify the page), (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):Her twynning cherries ſhall their ſweetnes fall / Upon thy taſtefull lips,
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Middle English
Verb
twynne
- twin
- c. 1387-1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Squire's Tale, The Canterbury Tales, 2011, Mark Allen, John H. Fisher (editors), The Complete Poetry and Prose of Geoffrey Chaucer, 3rd Edition (electronic version), page 200,
" […] Fortune wolde that he moste twynne" / Out of that place which that I was inne.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)