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'twas|twɒz|
abbreviation of it was, formerly common colloquially and in literature, now poetic or archaic, and dialectal. Cf. 'tis, and see it A. γ.
1604Shakes. Oth. iii. iii. 158 'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has bin slaue to thousands. 1693J. Byrom Let. to Aubrey 15 Nov., in Lett. Eminent Persons (1813) II. i. 167 'Twas then commonly said. 1741Richardson Pamela I. 175 'Twas a Thing to be lamented. 1859FitzGerald Omar xlii, He bid me taste of it; and 'twas—the Grape! |