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thine

(thīn)

pron. (used with a sing. or pl. verb)

Used to indicate the one or ones belonging to thee.

adj.A possessive form of thou¹

Used instead of thy before an initial vowel or h: "The presidential candidates are practicing the first rule of warfare: know thine enemy" (Eleanor Clift).

[Middle English thin; see thy.]

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thine

(ðaɪn)

determiner

archaic

a. (preceding a vowel) of, belonging to, or associated in some way with you (thou): thine eyes.

b. (as pronoun): thine is the greatest burden.

Compare thy

[Old English thīn; related to Old High German dīn, Gothic theina]

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thine

(ðaɪn)

pron.

1. the possessive case of thou used as a predicate adjective, after a noun or without a noun.

2. the possessive case of thou used as an attributive adjective before a noun beginning with a vowel or vowel sound: thine honor. Compare thy.

3. that which belongs to thee: Thine is the glory.

[before 900; Middle English; Old English thīn, c. Old Frisian, Old Saxon, Old High German thīn]

Translations

خاصتُكَ، ما يَخُصّكَلكَ

tvátvůj

din

dein

ta ton

tiéd

òinn

tua tuo

sana aitseninseninki

你的

thine

[ðaɪn]

A. POSS PRON (o.f., poet) (sing) → (el) tuyo, (la) tuya; (pl) → (los) tuyos, (las) tuyas
for thee and thine → para ti y los tuyos
what is mine is thine → lo que es mío es tuyo

B. ADJ (sing) → tu; (pl) → tus

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thine

(old, dial)

poss pron → der/die/das deine or Deine; for thee and thine → für dich und die deinen or Deinen ? mine¹

poss adj (only before vowel) → Euer/Eure/Euer (obs), → dein/deine/dein (also Eccl)

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thine

[ðaɪn] poss pron (old) (poet) → il/la tuo/a

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

thy

(ðai) adjective

an old word for `your' used only when addressing one person, especially God. thy father.

thine (ðain) pronoun

an old word for `yours' used only when addressing one person, especially God. Thine is the glory.

adjective

the form of thy used before a vowel or vowel sound. Thine anger is great; thine honour.

thyˈself pronoun

an old word for `yourself'. Look at thyself.

References in classic literature ?

Lo, that pain itself did the same conscience produce; and the last gleam of that conscience still gloweth on thine affliction.

But thou wouldst go the way of thine affliction, which is the way unto thyself?

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It was a July midnight; and from out A full-orbed moon, that, like thine own soul, soaring, Sought a precipitate pathway up through heaven, There fell a silvery-silken veil of light, With quietude, and sultriness, and slumber, Upon the upturned faces of a thousand Roses that grew in an enchanted garden, Where no wind dared to stir, unless on tiptoe -- Fell on the upturn'd faces of these roses That gave out, in return for the love-light, Their odorous souls in an ecstatic death -- Fell on the upturn'd faces of these roses That smiled and died in this parterre, enchanted By thee, and by the poetry of thy presence.

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"If, my lord, the beams of that sun that thou holdest eclipsed in thine arms did not dazzle and rob thine eyes of sight thou wouldst have seen by this time that she who kneels at thy feet is, so long as thou wilt have it so, the unhappy and unfortunate Dorothea.

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When from dark error's subjugation My words of passionate exhortation Had wrenched thy fainting spirit free; And writhing prone in thine affliction Thou didst recall with malediction The vice that had encompassed thee: And when thy slumbering conscience, fretting By recollection's torturing flame, Thou didst reveal the hideous setting Of thy life's current ere I came: When suddenly I saw thee sicken, And weeping, hide thine anguished face, Revolted, maddened, horror-stricken, At memories of foul disgrace.

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Right worthy the concern Of Phoebus, worthy thine too, for the dead; I also, as is meet, will lend my aid To avenge this wrong to Thebes and to the god.

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For what of pain, affliction, outrage, shame, Is lacking in our fortunes, thine and mine?

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"I sent a warrant to him with thine own royal seal attached, by a right lusty knave, but he beat the messenger and stole the warrant.

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Gauge thy gape with buck or goat, Lest thine eye should choke thy throat, After gorging, wouldst thou sleep?

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A hide of land I give to thee in my steads of Walbrugham, from me and mine to thee and thine aye and for ever; and God's malison on his head who this gainsays!''

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Administer this draught, therefore, with thine own hand.

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And after a time, set before thee thine own example; and examine thyself strictly, whether thou didst not best at first.