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amidst - definition and meaning
Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
amid .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
preposition
from Wiktionary , Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
preposition midst or middle of; surrounded or encompassed by; among .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Middle English amiddes : amidde ; see amid + -es , adverbial suffix; see –s.]
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Middle English amidde, amiddes, on midden, from Old English on middan ‘in the middle’, from midd ‘central’. The -s is an adverbial ending, originally marking the genitive; the t is a later addition, as in whilst, amongst, alongst. See mid .
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There are quite a few parts that made me laugh, too, in amidst the ripping off of body parts and tearing apart of flesh, shagging, and blood drinking.
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If I'm lucky I'll be able to sew a little tomorrow in amidst the housecleaning.
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And did it even occur to you once sir — somewhere in amidst those eight separate, gruesome, intentional, terroristic invocations of the horrors of 9/11 — that with only a little further shift in this world we now know — just a touch more repudiation of all of that for which our patriots died —
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tomsteele commented on the word amidst
I think you meant to say amid.
December 24, 2006
sonofgroucho commented on the word amidst
No we didn't!
October 1, 2007