one anothers

A form of one another's — The possessive form of one another.

Meanings

pronoun
  1. obsoleteObsolete form of one another's.

    […]thus theſe two / Imparadis’t in one anothers arms / The happier Eden, ſhall enjoy thir fill / Of bliſs on bliſs, while I to Hell am thruſt,[…]

    1667, John Milton, “Book IV”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 505–508
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    The Gallies / Haue ſent a dozen ſequent Meſſengers / This very night, at one anothers heeles: / And many of the Conſuls, raiſ’d and met, / Are at the Dukes already.

    c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii], page 312, column 1

    Like that of the Thruſh and Swallow in Æſope, Inſteed of mutual loue, kind compellations, whore & thief is heard, they fling ſtooles at one anothers heads.

    1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], “Democritus Iunior to the Reader”, in The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, page 56

    They [the Parsees] are tollerated all ſorts of meat; but (in obedience to the Mahomitan and Bannyan ’mongſt whom they live) refraine Beefe and Hog fleſh: they ſeldome feed together, leſt they might participate one anothers impurity: each has his owne cup[…].

    1634, T[homas] H[erbert], A Relation of Some Yeares Trauaile, Begunne Anno 1626. into Afrique and the Greater Asia, […], London: […] William Stansby, and Jacob Bloome, →OCLC, page 52

    The property of Contraries is, that they become one anothers Cure; whereupon we who have ſuffered by ſcarcity and dearth, do pray to be relieved by their contraries, cheapneſs and plenty.

    1676, Thomas Comber, “Of the Prayers in time of Dearth and Famine”, in A Companion to the Temple: Or, a Help to Devotion in the daily Use of the Common Prayer: In two Parts. Part II, Containing the Litany, with the Occasional Prayers and Thanksgivings., London: […] Henry Brome, […], section V., page 309
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