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from The Century Dictionary.

  • A contraction of it is, very common in prose speech and writing in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, but now chiefly used in poetry. The colloquial contraction of it is is it's.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • A common contraction of it is.

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