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Definition of Betwixt

1. Adverb. In the interval. "Dancing all the dances with little rest between"

Definition of Betwixt

1. prep. In the space which separates; between.

Definition of Betwixt

1. Preposition. (context: literary or archaic) Between, specifically between two objects. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Betwixt

1. between [prep] - See also: between

Lexicographical Neighbors of Betwixt

Literary usage of Betwixt

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Works of George Fox by George Fox (1831)
"For God would have all men to be saved, and to come to the knowledge of the truth: ' For there is one God, and one Mediator betwixt God and men, ..."

2. A General Collection of the Best and Most Interesting Voyages and Travels in by John Pinkerton (1814)
"... that commences a little beyond it The Shott is a large valley or plain, that runs, with few interruptions, betwixt two chains of mountains, ..."

3. A Svrvay of London: Contayning the Originall, Antiquity, Increase, Moderne by John Stow, Henry Morley (1890)
"These lectures are read daily, Sundays excepted, in the term times, by every one upon his day, in the morning betwixt nine and ten, ..."

4. The Church History of Britain, from the Birth of Jesus Christ Until the Year by Thomas Fuller, James Nichols (1842)
"Date we from hence the squint eyes of the clergy, whose sight (single before) was hereafter divided with double looks betwixt two objects at once,—the pope ..."

5. A Treatise of Human Nature: Being an Attempt to Introduce the Experimental by David ( Hume (1898)
"Of the Amorous Passion, or Love betwixt the Sexes. Of all the compound passions, which proceed from a mixture of love and hatred with other affections, ..."

6. The Works of George Fox by George Fox (1831)
"For God would have all men to be saved, and to come to the knowledge of the truth: ' For there is one God, and one Mediator betwixt God and men, ..."

7. A General Collection of the Best and Most Interesting Voyages and Travels in by John Pinkerton (1814)
"... that commences a little beyond it The Shott is a large valley or plain, that runs, with few interruptions, betwixt two chains of mountains, ..."

8. A Svrvay of London: Contayning the Originall, Antiquity, Increase, Moderne by John Stow, Henry Morley (1890)
"These lectures are read daily, Sundays excepted, in the term times, by every one upon his day, in the morning betwixt nine and ten, ..."

9. The Church History of Britain, from the Birth of Jesus Christ Until the Year by Thomas Fuller, James Nichols (1842)
"Date we from hence the squint eyes of the clergy, whose sight (single before) was hereafter divided with double looks betwixt two objects at once,—the pope ..."

10. A Treatise of Human Nature: Being an Attempt to Introduce the Experimental by David ( Hume (1898)
"Of the Amorous Passion, or Love betwixt the Sexes. Of all the compound passions, which proceed from a mixture of love and hatred with other affections, ..."

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