betweenity

Understand me, I do not want to oppose my pride of opinion against light and reason, but I am in such a state of 'betweenity' in my conclusions, that I can't say that the judgment of _this court_ is prepared to proclaim a decision upon the facts presented. "

The Life of Abraham Lincoln Henry Ketcham

Understand me, I do not want to oppose my pride of opinion against light and reason, but I am in such a state of 'betweenity' in my conclusions, that I can't say that the judgment of this court is prepared to proclaim a decision upon the facts presented.”

The Life of Abraham Lincoln Ketcham, Henry 1901

Not that I should die, but perhaps sink into a state of betweenity, neither well nor ill, in which I should observe nothing, and be very miserable besides.

Charlotte Brontë and Her Circle Clement King Shorter 1891

I am going to take my writing-desk and go down to Florida to F---- 's plantation, where we have now a home, and abide there until the heroic agony of betweenity, the freeze and thaw of winter, is over, and then

Authors and Friends Annie Fields 1874

But, thirdly and lastly, there's a third kind of folks -- the betweenity race -- who have no natur at all, and who I call man-grannies.

Alamance; Or, the Great and Final Experiment viii, 9-151, [1] p. 1847

I am benighted, bewildered, taken with art-magic, transmuted, TRANSMOGRIFIED, not myself nor yet another, but, as they say in Mississippi, 'a sort of betweenity. '

Charlemont; Or, the Pride of the Village. a Tale of Kentucky William Gilmore Simms 1838

Quite close to Farmer White's is a little ruinous cottage, white-washed once, and now in a sad state of betweenity, where dangling stockings and shirts, swelled by the wind, drying in a neglected garden, give signal of a washerwoman.

Our Village Mary Russell Mitford 1821

The house is not Gothic, but of that betweenity, that intervened when

The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 3 Horace Walpole 1757

-- that one word, you dog, will explain the mystery -- will show you why I am thus transmuted, TRANSMOGRIFIED, and in 'a state of betweenity. '

Charlemont; Or, the Pride of the Village. a Tale of Kentucky William Gilmore Simms 1838

I am going to take my writing-desk and go down to Florida to F ” ” 's plantation, where we have now a home, and abide there until the heroic agony of betweenity, the freeze and thaw of winter, is over, and then I doubt not I can write my three hours a day.

Authors and Friends Fields, Annie, 1834-1915 1896