'twixt
See also: twixt
English
Alternative forms
- twixt
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /twɪkst/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - Rhymes: -ɪkst
Preposition
'twixt
- (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[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act III, scene ii]:
- 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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