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Meaning of 'twixt | Babel Free

Preposition CEFR C2
twɪkst

Definitions

Apheretic form of betwixt.

archaic, literary

Examples

“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.”
“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.”

CEFR level

C2
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This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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