it's
Language: English
Part of speech: det
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪts/
rhymes: -ɪts
homophone: its
Etymology: From it + -’s (possessive marker).
Senses: examples: text: The manner wherewith our Lawes assay to moderate the foolish and vaine expences of table-cheare and apparell, seemeth contrarie to it’s end.
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 43, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book I, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
text: Behold the balanc’d Scales suspended stand,
Neither a jot inclin’d to either hand:
But place the smallest grain of weight in one,
Straight the fraternal equipoise is gone;
The loaded scale, preponderant, downward flies,
Drags down the chain, and makes it’s partner rise.
ref: 1767, George Canning, “Anti-Lucretius”, in Poems, London: for the author, page 281:
text: No State shall, without the Consent of the Congress, lay any Imposts or Duties on Imports or Exports, except what may be absolutely necessary for executing it's inspection Laws[.]
ref: 1787, “Article I”, in United States Constitution:
text: The object of your mission is to explore the Missouri river, & such principal stream of it, as, by it’s course & communication with the waters of the Pacific Ocean.
ref: 1803, President Thomas Jefferson, Instructions to Captain Meriwether Lewis:
text: It’s tendency would be to raise and refine her mind—and it must be saving her from the danger of degradation.
ref: 1815 December (indicated as 1816), [Jane Austen], chapter IV, in Emma: […], volume III, London: […] [Charles Roworth and James Moyes] for John Murray, →OCLC, page 60:
text: Article V.
The Boundary line between the two Republics shall commence in the Gulf of Mexico, three leagues from land, opposite the mouth of the Rio Grande, otherwise called Rio Bravo del Norte, or opposite the mouth of it’s deepest branch, if it should have more than one branch emptying directly into the sea; from thence up the middle of that river, following the deepest channel, where it has more than one, to the point where it strikes the southern boundary of New Mexico; thence, westwardly, along the whole southern boundary of New Mexico (which runs north of the town called Paso) to it’s western termination; thence, northward, along the western line of New Mexico, until it intersects the first branch of the river Gila; (or if it should not intersect any branch of that river, then, to the point on the said line nearest to such branch, and thence in a direct line to the same;) thence down the middle of the said branch and of the said river, until it empties into the Rio Colorado; thence, across the Rio Colorado, following the division line between Upper and Lower California, to the Pacific Ocean.
ref: 1848, Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo^(https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Guadalupe_Hidalgo_(original)):
text: The mouth of the cave was up the hillside—an opening shaped like a letter A. It’s massive oaken door stood unbarred.
ref: 1876, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter XXIX, in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Hartford, Conn.: The American Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 219:
glosses: Obsolete form of its.
examples: text: After being open only a few short weeks, Freddy Fazbear's Pizza is closing it's doors.
ref: 2014, Scott Cawthon, Five Nights at Freddy's 2, scene: night 6 ending:
glosses: Misspelling of its.