Meaning of 'tis | Babel Free

Definitions

Contraction of it + is.

abbreviation, alt-of, archaic, contraction, literary

Examples

“’Tis a shame!”

“’Tis but a scratch!”

“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.”

“Why should we say ’tis yet too soon, / To seek for Heaven or think of death […]”

“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.”

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