ſ
Language: English
Part of speech: character
Forms: form: S
form: ſs
form: ſ's
Senses: examples: text: VVritten in Latine by M.Iohn Caluine, and tranſlated into Engliſ he according to the authors laſt edition, By thomas norton. […] And the redemptor ſ hall come to Sion,and vnto thẽ that turne frõ their vvickednes in Iacob.
ref: 1574, Iohn Caluine, translated by Thomas Norton, The Institution of Christian Religion, London: […] [T]he widowe of Reginalde Wolffe, title page and Table page:
text: God is not onely a bare permiſsiue agent in an euill worke, but a powerfull effectour of the ſame[…]
ref: 1595, William Perkins, A Golden Chaine, or The Description Oe Theologie, page 16:
text: The Lord Commiſsioner ſheweth, that it is his Majeſties will that the Parliament be prorogated to the 2. of June, and that by his Majeſties authority only: of the prorogation, the prætenſion is pag. 30.
ref: 1640, The Proceedings of the Commissioners Sent from the Parliament of Scotland to the King, page 52:
text: So upon the 20. of Auguﬆ Mr. Frederick Schzdel a Merchant, ſet ſail in the good Ship called the Brown Fiſh, very richly freighted with all ſorts of Merchandizes from Taiwan to Canton; and after nine days ſail, landed in the Canton River, at a place called Heytamon.
ref: 1669, An Embassy from the East-India Company on the United Provinces, to the Grand Tartar Cham Emperor of China, pages 20–21:
text: THE FIRST VISION OF THE Algouazil (or Catchpole) Poſſeﬆ.
ref: 1702, Francisco de Quevedo-Villegas, translated by Roger Lestrange, The Visions of Dom Francisco de Quevedo-Villegas. Knight of the Order of S^(t.) James., London: […] B. Harris, page 1:
text: Dor. I have been told, noble Squire, that you once impos’d a certain lady for Dulcinea on your maſter; now what think you if this young lady here ſhould perſonate that incomparable princeſs? / Jez. Who, I? / San. Adod! your princeſsſhip has hit it; for he has never ſeen this Dulcinea, nor has any body elſe, that I can hear of;
ref: 1767, Henry Fielding, The Works of Henry Fielding: In Twelve Volumes, with the Life of the Author, volume 3, page 273:
text: But he does not ſtab him for his treachery toward hisſelf […]
ref: 1783, Joseph Ritson, Remarks, Critical and Illustrative, on the Text and Notes of the Last Edition of Shakspeare, page 223:
text: Many fanciful methods have been invented by thoſe who wiſhed to render puerile ſports conducive to improvement. I never found that they were ſucceſsful.
I muſt own myſelf an advocate for puerile liberty*, during the alloted hours of relaxation. Boys have much reſtraint and confinement in the time of ſtudy.
ref: 1785, Vicesimus Knox, Liberal Education: Or, a Practical Treatiſe on the Methods of Acquiring Uſeful and Polite Learning, vol. II, pp. 1 & 3, section XXXI: On the regulation of puerile diverſions
roman: Thoſe of the effeminate kind ſuperinduce effeminacy; weakneſs of mind, no leſs than imbecility of body. Something ſimilar happens in puerile diverſions. The boy who has been kept in leading-ſtrings too long, and reſtrained from hardy ſports by the fondneſs of his mother, will ſcarcely ever become a man; or poſſeſs that becoming ſpirit which can enable him to act his part with propriety.
text: 75. On the 11th of May, 1759, the Lords amend a turnpike road Bill, by inſerting a clauſe, “That no gate ſhall be erected within a mile of Enſham Ferry”. The conſideration of this amendment is reſolved, nemine contradicente, to be put off for a month.
ref: 1796, John Hatsell, Precedents of Proceedings in the House of Commons: With Observations, page 102:
text: Engliſh Poems /[…]/ New York: The Caſsell Publiſhing Company, 104, Fourth Avenᵉ.
ref: 1892, Richard Le Gallienne, English Poems, London: Elkin Mathews and John Lane at The Bodley Head; New York: The Cassell Publishing Company, […], page [iii]:
text: Do you deem it to be ſenſible to bring back the long ‘s’?[…]
It would ſuck.
ref: 2018, “Do you deem it to be ſenſible to bring back the long ‘s’?”, in Quora, archived from the original on 06 Jun 2023:
glosses: The nineteenth letter of the English alphabet, called long s, medial s, or descending s and written in the Latin script.