'tis

alternative tis

1. abbreviationarchaiccontractionliteraryalso occasionally informalContraction of it + is.

   ’Tis a shame!

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   ’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.

   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]

   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

   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

   Synonyms: it's