'tis

See also: tis, TIS, tîş, -tis, and t'is

English

Alternative forms

• tis

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /tɪz/

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• Rhymes: -ɪz

Contraction

'tis

1. (literary or archaic, also occasionally informal) Contraction of it is.

   Synonym: it's

   ’Tis a shame!    ’Tis but a scratch!

   • 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]:

     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.

   • 1825, Harrison’s Amusing Picture and Poetry Book, page 5:

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

   • 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:

     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.

Derived terms

• 'tisn't

See also

• 't
• 'twas, 'twasn't
• 'twere, 'tweren't
• 'twill/'tshall/it'll, 'twon't
• 'twould/'twou'd, 'twouldn't/'twou'dn't

Anagrams

• SIT, Sit, its, its', IST, STI, is't, ist, sit, -ist, 'its, it's, Ist, TSI, ITS, S.T.I.

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Contraction

'tis

1. Alternative form of tis
   • NOTES TO THE WEDDEEN O BALLYMORE

     (3) "'Tis aul in shruaanès."

References

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 98