BETWIXT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does betwixt mean? 

• BETWIXT (adverb)
  The adverb BETWIXT has 1 sense:

1. in the interval

  Familiarity information: BETWIXT used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BETWIXT (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In the interval

Synonyms:

between; betwixt

Context example:

dancing all the dances with little rest between

 Context examples 

The Frenchman, whirling up his sword, showed for an instant a chink betwixt his shoulder piece and the rerebrace which guarded his upper arm.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There was him, and Red Ike, and Fighting Yussef the Jew, and another, with a good bit of blood betwixt the shafts.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And betwixt ourselves, sinking his voice lower yet, that woman's name ain't Missis Gummidge neither, though she has a world of merits.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I trembled all the while betwixt fear and hatred.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

His love of danger, his intense appreciation of the drama of an adventure—all the more intense for being held tightly in—his consistent view that every peril in life is a form of sport, a fierce game betwixt you and Fate, with Death as a forfeit, made him a wonderful companion at such hours.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Here are four t's and never a letter betwixt them.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Twice I saw him open his lips, and twice he put his hand up to his throat, as though a barrier had risen betwixt himself and his utterance.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Betwixt you and me, Mas'r Davy—and you, ma'am—wen Mrs. Gummidge takes to wimicking,—our old country word for crying,—she's liable to be considered to be, by them as didn't know the old 'un, peevish-like. Now I DID know the old 'un, said Mr. Peggotty, and I know'd his merits, so I unnerstan' her; but 'tan't entirely so, you see, with others—nat'rally can't be!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The mare soon after my entrance rose from her mat, and coming up close, after having nicely observed my hands and face, gave me a most contemptuous look; and turning to the horse, I heard the word Yahoo often repeated betwixt them; the meaning of which word I could not then comprehend, although it was the first I had learned to pronounce.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

So far, there was little to choose betwixt challengers and challenged.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)