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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. pro. Used to indicate the one or ones belonging to thee.
  2. adj. Used instead of thy before an initial vowel or h: "The presidential candidates are practicing the first rule of warfare: know thine enemy” ( Eleanor Clift).

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Of thee; the original genitive of the pronoun thou.
  2. Of thee; belonging to thee. Compare mine, 2.
  3. Belonging or pertaining to thee: in this sense a possessive. Used predicatively.
  4. Used attributively, with the force of an adjective: commonly preferred before a vowel to thy, and now used only in that situation.

Wiktionary

  1. archaic Singular second person prevocalic possessive determiner (preconsonantal form: thy).
  2. pro. archaic Singular second person possessive pronoun.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. prep. A form of possessive case of the pronoun thou, now superseded in common discourse by your, the possessive of you, but maintaining a place in solemn discourse, in poetry, and in the usual language of the Friends, or Quakers.

Etymologies

  1. Middle English thyn, þyn, from Old English þīn. Cognate to German dein, Danish, Swedish and Norwegian din, Faroese tín and Icelandic þinn. (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English thin; see thy. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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