"eithers" meaning in All languages combined

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Determiner [English]

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  1. (obsolete) Any one of two or more. Tags: obsolete Related terms: either
    Sense id: en-eithers-en-det-5r6bj7-t Categories (other): English determiners, English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry
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          "ref": "1602, William Warner, “The Seventh Booke. Chapter XXXVI.”, in Albions England. A Continued Historie of the Same Kingdome, from the Originals of the First Inhabitants thereof: […], 5th edition, London: […] Edm[und] Bollifant for George Potter, […], →OCLC, page 173:",
          "text": "Nor Court nor Citie had ſhe ſeene, yeat eithers prayſe ſhe had: / So much more vvorth by hovve much leſſe ſhe vvas vn-nicely clad.",
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          "ref": "1608, [Guillaume de Salluste] Du Bartas, “[Du Bartas His Second VVeeke, […]. Abraham. […].] The Captaines. The IIII. Part of the III. Day of the II. Week.”, in Josuah Sylvester, transl., Du Bartas His Deuine Weekes and Workes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Humfrey Lownes [and are to be sold by Arthur Iohnson […]], published 1611, →OCLC, page 499:",
          "text": "[T]he friends that in one Couch did ſleep, / Each others blade in eithers breſt do ſteep: / And all the Camp with head-les dead is ſowen, / Cut-off by Cozen-ſwords, kill'd by their owne.",
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          "text": "That eithers friends, adherents, and ſequels, ſhould be comprehended in the truce, and that the truce ſhould extend it ſelfe to the titlers in Britaine and their ſides; and that the Cardinals ſhould doe their beſt to obtaine abſolution from the ſentence of Interdict executed vpon the Countrey of Flaunders.",
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          "ref": "1638, Tho[mas] Herbert, Some Yeares Travels Into Divers Parts of Asia and Afrique. […], 2nd edition, London: […] R[ichard] Bi[sho]p for Iacob Blome and Richard Bishop, →OCLC, book I, page 91:",
          "text": "Ganges (that great, rich and deified river which ſay the Bannyans iſſues out of a rock at Siba formed like a Cowes head) a whiles forbad them, reſtranyning eithers fury, ſave what volleyed from the roring guns to eithers prejudice.",
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          "ref": "1939 May 4, James Joyce, Finnegans Wake, London: Faber and Faber Limited, →OCLC; republished London: Faber & Faber Limited, 1960, →OCLC, part IV, page 605:",
          "text": "[A]middle of meeting waters of river Yssia and Essia river on this one of eithers lone navigable lake piously Kevin, […]",
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