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English
Pronunciation
Contraction
'tis
- (literary or archaic, also occasionally informal) Contraction of it is.
- Synonym: it's
’Tis a shame!
’Tis but a scratch!
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 Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :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.
1825, Harrison’s Amusing Picture and Poetry Book, page 5:Why should we say ’tis yet too soon, / To seek for Heaven or think of death […]
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: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.
Derived terms
See also
Anagrams
- SIT, Sit, its, its', IST, STI, is't, ist, sit, -ist, 'its, it's, Ist, TSI, ITS, S.T.I.
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Contraction
'tis
- Alternative form of tis
- NOTES TO THE WEDDEEN O BALLYMORE
- (3) "'Tis aul in shruaanès."
References
- Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 98