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Amidst

//aˈmɪdst// prep

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Preposition
  1. 1
    In the midst or middle of; surrounded or encompassed by; among.

    "Be a philosopher ; but amidst all your philosophy, be still a man."

Etymology

From amids + -t (excrescent), from amid + -s (genitive). By surface analysis, amid + -st (excrescent). Root amid from Middle English amidde, amiddes, on midden, from Old English on middan (“in the middle”), from midd (“central”) (English mid).

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