one anothers

one anothers

1. Obsolete form of one another's.
   • c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii], page 312, column 1:

     The Gallies / Haue ſent a dozen ſequent Meſſengers / This very night, at one anothers heeles: / And many of the Conſuls, raiſ’d and met, / Are at the Dukes already.

   • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], “Democritus Iunior to the Reader”, in The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, page 56:

     Like that of the Thruſh and Swallow in Æſope, Inſteed of mutual loue, kind compellations, whore & thief is heard, they fling ſtooles at one anothers heads.

   • 1634, T[homas] H[erbert], A Relation of Some Yeares Travaile, Begunne Anno 1626. into Afrique and the Greater Asia, […], London: […] William Stansby, and Jacob Bloome, →OCLC, page 52:

     They [the Parsees] are tollerated all ſorts of meat; but (in obedience to the Mahomitan and Bannyan ’mongſt whom they live) refraine Beefe and Hog fleſh: they ſeldome feed together, leſt they might participate one anothers impurity: each has his owne cup […].

   • 1667, John Milton, “Book IV”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 505–508:

     […] thus theſe two / Imparadis’t in one anothers arms / The happier Eden, ſhall enjoy thir fill / Of bliſs on bliſs, while I to Hell am thruſt, […]

   • 1676, Thomas Comber, “Of the Prayers in time of Dearth and Famine”, in A Companion to the Temple: Or, a Help to Devotion in the daily Use of the Common Prayer: In two Parts. Part II, Containing the Litany, with the Occasional Prayers and Thanksgivings., London: […] Henry Brome, […], section V., page 309:

     The property of Contraries is, that they become one anothers Cure; whereupon we who have ſuffered by ſcarcity and dearth, do pray to be relieved by their contraries, cheapneſs and plenty.