twinborn

[ twin-bawrn ]

adjective

1. born bear born at the same birth.

Word History and Origins

Origin of twinborn¹

First recorded in 1590–1600; twin ¹ + born

Example Sentences

"Has that delirium also taken possession of you," cried the old man, "in its peculiar way and wrapped you in the folds of its dark vestments? now I would have sworn that you were free from that! and yet I should have done wrong, for all fanaticism is but the twinborn of the apparently most improbable and inimical."

From Project Gutenberg

And fourfold now the gradual glory shines That shows once more in heaven two twinborn signs, Two brethren stars whose light no cloud may fret, No soul whereon their story dawns forget.

From Project Gutenberg

Not when we played as twinborn child with child?

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