twixt

«twixt» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: between — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

kind

archaic word

modern equivalent

between

part of speech

preposition

meaning for a pupil

Between two things or people. tree →

how it differs from today

No longer used; today we say between.

examples

• Shame on me if I touch the hand that has come 'twixt me and my own heart's love.” (English Fairy Tales) tree →
• Prince Ivan, 'twixt sleeping and waking, waxed very wroth with his tutor, and handed him over entirely to the Princess, saying-- (Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore) tree →
• Wid dat I des drapt back inter de woods, en sorter skeerted 'roun' so's ter git de tree 'twixt' me en de road. (Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings) tree →

primary record

between

tests

rate: word (≥3 uses, never in EWT or ≥10× EWT, Wiktionary: first sense archaic); corpora 6 (Torah 0, tales 6, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 0.7 (Torah alone 0.0); Wiktionary archaic (first sense)

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «twixt» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.