Midst vs Throes - What's the difference?
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(often, literary) A place in the middle of something; may be used of a literal or metaphorical location .
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Midst is a related term of throes.
As nouns the difference between midst and throes
is that midst is (often|literary) a place in the middle of something; may be used of a literal or metaphorical location while throes is .As a preposition midst
is (rare) among, in the middle of; amid.midst
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Alternative forms
* midest (obsolete) * middis (obsolete) * middst (obsolete) * middest (obsolete) * myddis (obsolete) * mydst (obsolete) * mydest (obsolete) * myddst (obsolete) * myddest (obsolete)Noun
(-)citation, passage=Miss Phyllis Morgan, as the hapless heroine dressed in the shabbiest of clothes, appears in the midst of a gay and giddy throng; she apostrophises all and sundry there, including the villain, and has a magnificent scene which always brings down the house, and nightly adds to her histrionic laurels.}}
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- At dawn, in the midst of a mist that is both literal and the unformed shifting of thought, he encounters a young fox pup playfully shaking a bone.
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- As he said in "I Have a Dream," the Negro "lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity."