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atwain

adv
/əˈtweɪn/

Etymology

From a- + twain.

  1. derived from *dwóh₁✻
  2. derived from *twai✻
  3. derived from *twai-✻
  4. inherited from twēġen
  5. inherited from tweyne
  6. prefixed as atwain — “a + twain”

Definitions

  1. Into two parts.

    • [S]uch ſmiling rogues as theſe, / Like Rats oft bite the holy cords a twaine, / Which are t' intrince, t' vnlooſe: […]
    • Clear-headed friend, whose joyful scorn, / Edged with sharp laughter, cuts atwain / The knots that tangle human creeds, / The wounding cords that bind and strain / The heart until it bleeds, […]
    • […] a much wider valley into which a great reef of rocks thrust out from the high mountain, so that the northern half of the said vale was nigh cleft atwain by it;

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