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- (archaic) Contraction of in 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], pages 17–18:
- O braue new world / That has ſuch people in't.
- (Northern England, informal) Contraction of isn't.
- 2006, Alex Turner (lyrics and music), “A Certain Romance”, in Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not, performed by Arctic Monkeys:
- But all of that's what the point is not / The point's that there in't no romance around there