twynne
English
Noun
twynne (plural twynnes)
- Obsolete spelling of twin
- c. 1600, Parish Church of Leeds, 1891, The Registers of the Parish Church of Leeds: 1572 to 1612, page 153,
- Thomas, child of James Smythe, without Lydynte (being one of the twynnes).
- 1626 June 2, Jane Cornwallis, 1842, Richard Griffin (editor), The Private Correspondence of Jane Lady Cornwallis; 1613-1644, page 158,
- […] I comfort myself in that observacion he makes of the time, as hoping that I shall hear by the next that we are twynnes as well in recovering as in falling sick, […] .
- c. 1600, Parish Church of Leeds, 1891, The Registers of the Parish Church of Leeds: 1572 to 1612, page 153,
Verb
twynne
- Obsolete spelling of twin
- c. 1385, Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde, 1987, Larry Dean Benson (editor), The Riverside Chaucer, 2008 paperback edition, page 544,
- And ther I wol eternaly compleyne / My wo, and how that twynned be we tweyne.
- c. 1387-1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Squire's Tale, The Canterbury Tales, 2011, Mark Allen, John H. Fisher (editors), The Complete Poetry and Prose of Geoffrey Chaucer, 3rd Edition (electronic version), page 200,
- " […] Fortune wolde that he moste twynne" / Out of that place which that I was inne.
- 1634, John Fletcher, William Shakespeare, The Two Noble Kinsmen, 1836, Reproduction of the 1634 quarto, page 10,
- Her twynning cherries ſhall their ſweetnes fall / Upon thy taſtefull lips,
- c. 1385, Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde, 1987, Larry Dean Benson (editor), The Riverside Chaucer, 2008 paperback edition, page 544,
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