'twixt

Conjunction

Meaning

An abbreviation of Betwixt, used in poetry, or in colloquial language.

Synonyms

Examples

Just at the age 'twixt boy and youth, When thought is speech, and speech is truth. Walter Scott

So, timely you came, and well you chose, You came when most needed, my winter rose. From the snow I pluck you, and fondly press Your leaves 'twixt the leaves of my leaflessness. Alfred Austin

A world made to be lost, - A bitter life 'twixt pain and nothing tost. William Morris

This narrow isthmus 'twixt two boundless seas, The past, the future,two eternities. Thomas Moore

The world is full of warfare 'twixt the evil and the good;I watched the battle from afar as one who understoodThe shouting and confusion, the bloody, blundering fight-How few there are that see it clear, how few that wage it right! Henry van Dyke

Pray but one prayer for me 'twixt thy closed lips, Think but one thought of me up in the stars. William Morris