Preposition

(English prepositions)

(literary, or, archaic) Between, specifically between two objects.

* Shakespeare

There was some speech of marriage / Betwixt myself and her.

* 1898 , , (Moonfleet) Chapter 3

When I saw the coffin I knew that I was respited, for, as I judged, there was space between it and the wall behind enough to contain my little carcass; and in a second I had put out the candle, scrambled up the shelves, half-stunned my senses with dashing my head against the roof, and squeezed my body betwixt wall and coffin.

Preposition

(English prepositions)

In the position or interval that separates (two things), or intermediate in quantity or degree. (See the Usage notes below.)

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*:Thus, when he drew up instructions in lawyer language, he expressed the important words by an initial, a medial, or a final consonant, and made scratches for all the words between ; his clerks, however, understood him very well.

*{{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, author=(Henry Petroski)

, title= Geothermal Energy , volume=101, issue=4, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Energy has seldom been found where we need it when we want it. Ancient nomads, wishing to ward off the evening chill and enjoy a meal around a campfire, had to collect wood and then spend time and effort coaxing the heat of friction out from between sticks to kindle a flame.}}

Done together or reciprocally.

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*{{quote-book, year=1935, author= George Goodchild

, title=Death on the Centre Court, chapter=1 , passage=She mixed furniture with the same fatal profligacy as she mixed drinks, and this outrageous contact between things which were intended by Nature to be kept poles apart gave her an inexpressible thrill.}}

Shared in confidence.

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In transit from (one to the other, or connecting places).

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Combined (by effort or ownership).

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One of (representing a choice).

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