betwixt

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  1. adverb Between.
  2. idiom betwixt and between In an intermediate position; neither wholly one thing nor another.

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  • The intelligence that was received of the movements of Cornwallis was both confused and contradictory; owing to the conformity of name betwixt two roads that were of equal length and parallel to each other, the best officers were mistaken in their reports. —  Memoirs, Correspondence and Manuscripts of General Lafayette
  • To say the truth, whether it were chance or skill or downright witchcraft, there was something wonderfully human in this ridiculous shape bedizened with its tattered finery, and, as for the countenance, it appeared to shrivel its yellow surface into a grin--a funny kind of expression betwixt scorn and merriment, as if it understood itself to be a jest at mankind. —  Short Stories of Various Types
  • Even that's bereft us too: Our envious fates Jostle betwixt, and part the dear adieus Of meeting lips, clasped hands, and locked embraces Ćneas. —  The works of John Dryden, $c now first collected in eighteen volumes. $p Volume 06
  • My poor poet, I pity you--betwixt the devil and the deep sea They're a pair of harpies, each holding over me the Damocles sword of an arrest for bigamy. —  The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes
  • But you would not be contented to bed me so; or give me leave to put the sword betwixt us Aur. —  The works of John Dryden, $c now first collected in eighteen volumes. $p Volume 04
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  1. Middle English bitwixt, from Old English betwix; see dwo- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Also by apheresis twixt, 'twixt, Scots betwisht, betweesht, from late Middle English betwixt, bytwyxte, earlier betwix, betuxt, betuixte, betwex, betuix, bitwix, etc., from Anglo-Saxon betwyxt, betwuxt (with excrescent -t), betwyx, betweox, betweoks, betwux, betux, apparently shortened from the dative form (or perhaps representing an orig. accusative form) *betweoxum, later Middle English betwixen, betwixe, q. v. In Middle English the words were mixed.
 

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