in twain
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.39 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
3
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "When the masked stranger hew with his axe, the baker's head did split in twain and his body fell like a lump to the ground in turn."
- "And when cold Winter ſplit the Rocks in twain, And Ice the running Rivers did reſtrain, He ſtripp’d the Bears-foot of its leafy Growth,"
- "It was an anomalous situation. Precedents, there were none. No state ever before had been rent in twain."
- "[…]shortly, it will rend my loins in twain, burst forth, and pull us down, down, down into the deep, dark waters of commitment."
Etymology
From Middle English in tweyn, in twen, in tweyne (also as on tweyne). Compare Old English on twēġen (“in two”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: in tweyn, on twēġen