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Definition of Twinborn
1. a. Born at the same birth.
Definition of Twinborn
1. Adjective. born a twin or twins ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Twinborn
1. born at the same birth [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Twinborn
Literary usage of Twinborn
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, George Walter Prothero, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle (1840)
"Lucy, deem it even so : I am thy brother, we're twinborn in soul : Whit would we
more ? Only be thou indeed My own true «ister in this enterprise, ..."
2. Proverbial Philosophy: A Book of Thoughts and Arguments, Originally Treated by Martin Farquhar Tupper (1847)
"None ? its twinborn brother scarcely missed it from the spray: None ?—if none
indeed, then man's neglect were bitterness; And life a land without a sun, ..."
3. The Dial by Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, George Ripley (1842)
"There comes indeed a time when Poesy and Truth, though twinborn in the thought,
can be separate in the expression, and the groundwork, no longer all shot ..."
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