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our's

  1. Obsolete form of ours.
    • 1678, William Lloyd, A Sermon at the Funeral of Sr Edmund-Berry Godfrey, One of His Majesties Justices of the Peace, Who Was Barbarously Murthered. [], London: [] Tho. Newcomb, for Henry Brome [], page 10:
      And yet whereinſoever they differ, if their caſe exceed our’s in ſome reſpects, it is exceeded by our’s in ſo many more, as may ſufficiently juſtifie us, and oblige us to the like Lamentation.
    • 1807, [Germaine] de Staël Holstein, translated by D[ennis] Lawler, “[Book X. Holy week.] Chap[ter] V.”, in Corinna; or, Italy. [], volume III, London: [] Corri, []; and sold by Colburn, [], and Mackenzie, [], →OCLC, page 52:
      The difference of our religions, my dear Oswald,” continued Corinna, “is the cause of that secret censure which you cannot help discovering to me. Your’s is serious and rigid—our’s, lively and tender.[”]
    • 1815 December (indicated as 1816), [Jane Austen], chapter X, in Emma: [], volume III, London: [] [Charles Roworth and James Moyes] for John Murray, →OCLC, page 182:
      Your only blunder was confined to my ear, when you imagined a certain friend of our’s in love with the lady.
    • 1842, John James, The Mother’s Help Towards Instructing Her Children in the Excellencies of the Catechism, and of the Services Appointed by the Church of England for the More Special Occasions Which Mark Christian Life, London: [] J. G. F. & J. Rivington, [], page 369:
      Thus the service in the course of this address proceeds to warn us of the new responsibilities to which we may expect to be called, when as parents it will be our’s to “bring up children in the fear and nurture of the Lord, and to the praise of his holy name:” []