twynne

English

Noun

twynne (plural twynnes)

1. Obsolete 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).

   • 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

twynne

1. Obsolete spelling of twin.
   • 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):

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

Anagrams

• twenny

Middle English

Verb

twynne

1. twin
   • c. 1385, Geoffrey Chaucer, “Troilus and Criseyde”, in Larry Dean Benson, editor, The Riverside Chaucer, 2008 paperback edition, published 1987, page 544:

     And ther I wol eternaly compleyne / My wo, and how that twynned be we tweyne.

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   • c. 1387-1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Squire's Tale, The Canterbury Tales, 2011, Mark Allen, John H. Fisher (editors), The Complete Poetry and Prose of Geoffrey Chaucer, 3rd Edition (electronic version), page 200,

     " […] Fortune wolde that he moste twynne" / Out of that place which that I was inne.

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