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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Midst \Midst\, prep.
In the midst of amidst. --Shak.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Midst \Midst\, adv
In the middle. [R.] --Milton.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Midst \Midst\, n. [From middest, in the middest, for older in
middes, where -s is adverbial (orig. forming a genitive), or
still older a midde, a midden, on midden. See {Mid}, and cf
{Amidst}.]
1. The interior or central part or place the middle; -- used
chiefly in the objective case after in as in the midst
of the forest.
And when the devil had thrown him in the midst, he
came out of him --Luke iv 35.
There is nothing . . . in the midst [of the play]
which might not have been placed in the beginning.
--Dryden.
2. Hence figuratively, the condition of being surrounded or
beset; the press; the burden; as in the midst of official
duties; in the midst of secular affairs.
Note: The expressions in our midst, in their midst, etc., are
avoided by some good writers, the forms in the midst of
us in the midst of them etc., being preferred.
Syn: {Midst}, {Middle}.
Usage: Midst in present usage commonly denotes a part or
place surrounded on enveloped by or among other parts
or objects (see {Amidst}); while middle is used of the
center of length, or surface, or of a solid, etc We
say in the midst of a thicket; in the middle of a
line or the middle of a room in the midst of
darkness; in the middle of the night.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
midst
n : the location of something surrounded by other things "in
the midst of the crowd" [syn: {thick}]
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