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- (obsolete) Contraction of for it.
- 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i], page 17:
- I am woe for't, Sir.
- 1699, Desiderius Erasmus, Twenty‐two Select Colloquies out of Erasmus Roterodamus, page 140:
- And what’s your Reaſon for’t ?