'twixt

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'twixt

  1. (archaic, literary) Contraction of betwixt.
    • c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies [] (First Folio), London: [] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:
      Since I have your good leave to go away,
      I will make haste: but, till I come again,
      No bed shall e’er be guilty of my stay,
      Nor rest be interposer ’twixt us twain.
    • 1851, Sojourner Truth, Frances Dana Barker Gage, Ain't I a Woman?:
      I think that ’twixt the negroes of the South and the women at the North, all talking about rights, the white men will be in a fix pretty soon.