twynne

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A form of twin — Either of two people (or, less commonly, animals) who shared the same uterus at the same time; one who was born at the same birth as a sibling.

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Meanings

nountwynne (plural twynnes)

plural twynnes

  1. obsoleteObsolete 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).

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    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, […] .

verb
  1. obsoleteObsolete spelling of twin.

    Her twynning cherries ſhall their ſweetnes fall / Upon thy taſtefull lips,

    1613–1614 (date written), John Fletcher, William Shak[e]speare, The Two Noble Kinsmen: […], London: […] Tho[mas] Cotes, for Iohn Waterson; […], published 1634, →OCLC, (please specify the page), (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals)
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Chicago

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