their's

English

Pronoun

their's

1. Obsolete form of theirs.
   • 1720, Daniel Defoe, Memoirs of a Cavalier, published 1840, page 331:

     Colonel Middleton was dismounted amongst the king's forces, of whom one, taking him for a commander of their's, mounted him again, and bid him make haste, and kill a roundhead; and so he escaped.

   • 1855, Alfred Tennyson, “The Charge of the Light Brigade”, in Maud, and Other Poems, new edition, London: Edward Moxon, […], published 6, →OCLC, stanza 2, page 162:

     “Forward, the Light Brigade!” / Was there a man dismay’d? / Not tho’ the soldier knew / Some one had blunder’d: / Their’s not to make reply, / Their’s not to reason why, / Their’s but to do and die, / Into the valley of Death / Rode the six hundred.

   • 1867, Joseph Edwards Carpenter, The Entertainers' Song Book, page 80:

     Irish ladies have feet very pretty, / English ladies have their's very small; / French ladies' are dressish and natty, / Chinese ladies have no feet at all.

2. Misspelling of theirs.
   • 1962, Nicholas Wollaston, “El Salvador”, in Red Rumba: A Journey through the Caribbean and Central America, London: Hodder & Stoughton, →OCLC, page 107:

     But however many the families number, their’s is the republic, the power and the glory, and for ever and ever they mean to keep it.

Contraction

their's

1. Misspelling of there's.