CAMBRIDGE – NDP MPP Catherine Fife (Waterloo) met with seniors who have experienced spousal separation in Ontario’s Long-Term Care system today, pushing to bring the Till Death Do Us Part Act back to Queen’s Park committee for discussion and debate.

CAMBRIDGE – NDP MPP Catherine Fife (Waterloo) met with seniors who have experienced spousal separation in Ontario’s Long-Term Care system today, pushing to bring the Till Death Do Us Part Act back to Queen’s Park committee for discussion and debate.

    • MarkG_108OPM
      3·
      2 years ago

      The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 (gcide) Till Till, prep. [OE. til, Icel. til; akin to Dan. til, Sw. till, OFries. til, also to AS. til good, excellent, G. ziel end, limit, object, OHG. zil, Goth. tils, gatils, fit, convenient, and E. till to cultivate. See Till, v. t.] To; unto; up to; as far as; until; – now used only in respect to time, but formerly, also, of place, degree, etc., and still so used in Scotland and in parts of England and Ireland; as, I worked till four o’clock; I will wait till next week. [1913 Webster]

           He . . . came till an house.             --Chaucer.

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           Women, up till this
     Cramped under worse than South-sea-isle taboo.
                                              --Tennyson.

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           Similar sentiments will recur to every one familiar
     with his writings -- all through them till the very
     end.                                     --Prof.
                                              Wilson.

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      Till now, to the present time.

      Till then, to that time. [1913 Webster]

    • MarkG_108OPM
      2·
      2 years ago

      Also, beyond the dictionary citation I provided in the previous comment, note that the phrase “Till death do us part” is in the Book of Common Prayer.