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Meaning of eithers | Babel Free

Article CEFR C2

Definitions

Any one of two or more.

obsolete

Examples

“Nor Court nor Citie had ſhe ſeene, yeat eithers prayſe ſhe had: / So much more vvorth by hovve much leſſe ſhe vvas vn-nicely clad.”
“[T]he friends that in one Couch did ſleep, / Each others blade in eithers breſt do ſteep: / And all the Camp with head-les dead is ſowen, / Cut-off by Cozen-ſwords, kill'd by their owne.”
“That eithers friends, adherents, and ſequels, ſhould be comprehended in the truce, and that the truce ſhould extend it ſelfe to the titlers in Britaine and their ſides; and that the Cardinals ſhould doe their beſt to obtaine abſolution from the ſentence of Interdict executed vpon the Countrey of Flaunders.”
“Ganges (that great, rich and deified river which ſay the Bannyans iſſues out of a rock at Siba formed like a Cowes head) a whiles forbad them, reſtranyning eithers fury, ſave what volleyed from the roring guns to eithers prejudice.”
“[A]middle of meeting waters of river Yssia and Essia river on this one of eithers lone navigable lake piously Kevin, […]”

CEFR level

C2
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