ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Twifaced

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech adjective

Quick meaning: Twifaced is an adjective meaning (archaic, poetic) Having two faces.

Meaning

(archaic, poetic) Having two faces.

More Meanings

  1. (obsolete) Two-faced; deceitful.

Example Sentences

These two of whom I tell, from their first hours. Or, like a twi-faced urn, which doth outflow With the same spring, […]
“E'en so, Æneas, do I swear by Stars, and Sea, and Earth, By twi-faced Janus, and the twins Latona brought to birth, […]
There is no time to measure motion by, There time is swallowed in eternity: Wry-mouth'd disdain, and corner-hunting lust, And twy-fac'd fraud, [...]

Word Forms

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Related dictionary entries include twi-faced, two-faced, bifacial, twi-headed, bifront, double-faced.

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