Word Meanings - ATWAIN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

In twain; asunder. "Cuts atwain the knots." Tennyson.

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• ATWAIN
  In twain; asunder. "Cuts atwain the knots." Tennyson.
• TWAIN
  Two;- nearly obsolete in common discourse, but used in poetry and burlesque. "Children twain." Chaucer. And whosoever shall compel thee to go a mile, go with him twain. Matt. v. 41. In twain, in halves; into two parts; asunder. When old winder split
• ASUNDER
  Apart; separate from each other; into parts; in two; separately; into or in different pieces or places. I took my staff, even Beauty, and cut it asunder. Zech. xi. 10. As wide asunder as pole and pole. Froude.
• TENNYSONIAN
  Of or pertaining to Alfred Tennyson, the English poet ; resembling, or having some of the characteristics of, his poetry, as simplicity, pictorial quality, sensuousness, etc.
• UNTWAIN
  To rend in twain; to tear in two. Skelton.