thine
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Your in old English that comes before a noun beginning with a vowel sound
- determiner
- /θaɪn/
- Archaic
:
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- If thine eye offends thee, pluck it out.
- thine eye
- thine eye offend
Examples
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Alack, there lies more peril in thine eye than twenty of their swords.
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It says, Let thine eye look like a friend on Denmark.
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If thine eye offends thee, pluck it out.
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If thou canst love a fellow of this temper, Kate, that never looks in his glass for love of anything he sees there, let thine eye be thy cook.
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And what, pray tell, did thine eyes see?
Synonyms
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9.9
An old or poetic way to say your when speaking to one person
is used before a noun especially when the next word starts with a vowel sound
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An informal way to say your in some dialects of English
is archaic and used before nouns that start with vowel sounds
Surface Forms
thine singular
Etymology
Thine is an old form of 'your' used before a noun and is in the same family as thy and thou, old words for 'you'. A helpful way to remember it is to think 'thine umbrella' as 'your umbrella' or like 'mine' but meaning 'yours'.