Obs. rare–1. [f. TWIN B. 4; cf. a twyn(n)y, variant of ATWIN advb. phr.1]. In phr. in twinny, asunder, apart.
c. 1380. Wyclif, Wks. (1880), 318. Many men when þey ben gederid preyen more plesingliche to god þen wen þei ben scaterid in twynny.
