'tis en · X
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(abbreviation, alt-of, archaic, contraction, literary, qualifier:also occasionally informal) Contraction of it + is.
alt of it
Why should we say ’tis yet too soon, / To seek for Heaven or think of death […]
1825, Harrison’s Amusing Picture and Poetry Book, page 5:’Tis a shame!
No, ’tis not ſo deep as a vvell, nor ſo vvide as a church-door [i.e., a wound]; but ’tis enough, ’tvvill ſerve: aſk for me to-morrovv, and you ſhall find me a grave man.
c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:It looks well in a picter, I’ve heerd say; but there an’t weather in picters, and maybe ’tis fitter for that, than for a place to live in.
1844 (date written), Charles Dickens, “Third Quarter”, in The Chimes: A Goblin Story of Some Bells that Rang an Old Year out and a New Year in, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1845, →OCLC, page 119:’Tis but a scratch!
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| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
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| tis | alternative | lexicographic |
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'twere · 'twou'd · 'twon't · 't · 'twill · 'twou'dn't · 'tshall · 'twasn't · 'twas · 'twouldn't · 'twould · it'll · 'tweren't