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contraction
- contractionobsoleteshall be
Away, away, no time ſhalbe omitted, / That will be time and may by vs befitted.
c. 1595–1596 (date written), W. Shakespere [i.e., William Shakespeare], A Pleasant Conceited Comedie Called, Loues Labors Lost. […] (First Quarto), London: […] W[illiam] W[hite] for Cut[h]bert Burby, published 1598, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii]1 more example
The wombe ſhall forget him, the worme ſhall feed ſweetly on him, hee ſhall be no more remembred, and wickednes ſhalbe broken as a tree.
1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Job 24:20, column 2
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