'twixt

//twɪkst// prep

prep ·Rare ·Advanced level

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Preposition
  1. 1
    Apheretic form of betwixt. archaic, literary

    "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."

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"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."

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