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# twixt

«twixt» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **between** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### kind

archaic word

### modern equivalent

between

### part of speech

preposition

### meaning for a pupil

Between two things or people. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/T/twixt/#m1)

### how it differs from today

No longer used; today we say between.

### examples

- Shame on me if I touch the hand that has come 'twixt me and my own heart's love.” (English Fairy Tales) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/T/twixt/#x1)
- Prince Ivan, 'twixt sleeping and waking, waxed very wroth with his tutor, and handed him over entirely to the Princess, saying-- (Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/T/twixt/#x2)
- Wid dat I des drapt back inter de woods, en sorter skeerted 'roun' so's ter git de tree 'twixt' me en de road. (Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/T/twixt/#x3)

### primary record

between

### tests

rate: word (≥3 uses, never in EWT or ≥10× EWT, Wiktionary: first sense archaic); corpora 6 (Torah 0, tales 6, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 0.7 (Torah alone 0.0); Wiktionary archaic (first sense)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «twixt» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/T/twixt/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.