Midst
Midst , noun
[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 compare 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.
There is nothing... in the midst [of the play] which might not have been placed in the beginning.
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.
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.
Midst , preposition
In the midst of; amidst. — Shakespeare
Midst , adverb
In the middle. [Rare] — Milton