sinsyne

[ sin-sahyn ]

adverb

, Scot. and North England.

1. from that time; since then.

Word History and Origins

Origin of sinsyne¹

1325–75; Scots and Northern dialect sin subsequent to, after ( Middle English, variant of sithen, Old English siththan sith ) + syne; replacing Middle English ( Scots ) sensyne ( sen, variant of sethen, variant of sithen; since )

Example Sentences

So it all fell out very well, and everybody was quite pleased; and the two weddings took place at once, and, unless they be dead sinsyne, the young couples are living yet.

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But, alake! afore the end o' his twa discourses, my heart turned as cauld as lead, and it has never again hett in my breast sinsyne.

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Folk have dee’d sinsyne and been buried, and are forgotten, and bairns been born and got merrit and got bairns o’ their ain.

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Sinsyne woods have been plantit, and have grawn up and are bonny trees, and the joes sit in their shadow; and sinsyne auld estates have changed hands, and there have been wars and rumours of wars on the face of the earth.

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I still think the visit to Ponto’s the best part of the “Book of Snobs”: does that mean that I was right when I was a child, or does it mean that I have never grown since then, that the child is not the man’s father, but the man? and that I came into the world with all my faculties complete, and have only learned sinsyne to be more tolerant of boredom?...

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