Meanings
- not comparableobsoleteWithin; inside; inwardly.
[It is much greater] labour for to withinforth call into mind, without sight of the eye withoutforth upon images, what he before knew and thought upon.
c. 1449-1455, Reginald Pecock, Represser of over-much weeting [blaming] of the Clergie1 more example
And I sawȝ, and loo! an hoond was sent to me, in whom was a boke foldyn. And he leide it abrood before me, the which was writen withinforth and withoutforth. And lamentaciouns, and dite, or soong, and woo, was writen in it.
And when I looked, behold, an hand was sent unto me; and, lo, a roll of a book was therein; And he spread it before me; and it was written within and without: and there was written therein lamentations, and mourning, and woe.
c. 1382–1395, John Wycliffe [et al.], edited by Josiah Forshall and Frederic Madden, The Holy Bible, […], volume III, Oxford: At the University Press, published 1850, →OCLC, Ezekiel 2:9–10, page 505, column 1
Origin
- Middle Englishwithinforth
- Englishwithinforth
From Middle English withinforth, from withinne + forth, equivalent to within + forth.
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