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# twixt

preposition

«twixt» in the English dictionary: Early Modern English — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Early Modern English

### Meaning

Between two things or people. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/T/twixt/#m1)

### Then and now

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 →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/T/twixt/#x1)
- 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 →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/T/twixt/#x2)
- 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 →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/T/twixt/#x3)

### Note

Today: between.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «twixt» in the Early Modern English dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/T/twixt/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«twixt» in the Early Modern English dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/emode/w/twixt.html) on Mova free.