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English
Contraction
you'r
- Obsolete form of you're.
1650, Recreation for Ingenious Head-peeces. Or, A Pleasant Grove for Their Wits to Walke in, of Epigrams, 700. Epitaphs, 200. Fancies, a Number. Fantasticks, abundance. With Their Addition, Multiplication, and Division., London: M. Simmons, :I cannot viſit Hide-Park every day, / And with a Hackney court my time away; / I cannot ſpaniolize it week by week, / Or wait a moneth to kiſſe your hand or cheek; / If when you’r lov’d, you cannot love again, / Why, doe but ſay ſo, I am out of pain.
1700, [William] Congreve, The Way of the World, a Comedy. , London: Jacob Tonson, , →OCLC, Act IV, scene x, page 62:Offence? As I’m a Perſon, I’m aſhamed of you⸺Fogh! how you ſtink of Wine! Dee think my Niece will ever endure ſuch a Borachio! you’r an abſolute Borachio.
1772 May 6, engraving by James Caldwell after Michel-Vincent Brandoin (image), London: J. Smith, & R. Sayer, , →OCLC:Now Sr. You’r a compleat Macaroni.
