Meaning of long s | Babel Free

Definitions

The ſ character, as distinct from the short s (which is the s character).

Equivalents

Examples

“An instance lately occurred of a work⟳ so divided (a prayer-book), where the first part was printed with long s’s, and the last⟳ part with round, independent of other deviations;”

“The Bible itself was quite unknown ground until I was ten and stumbled upon the Apocrypha in an old edition of the Bible printed with long s’s and beautiful early type⟳.”

“He liked me to come⟳ into his dressing-room to talk⟳ to him while he lathered his face⟳, and I remembered the lie⟳ I told him when he asked me if I had used the top of his silver shaving-pot to knock⟳ in a nail, and the day when he asked me to read⟳ him Burke’s speeches aloud in an edition printed with long s’s.”

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