Hisn

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Pronoun
  1. 1
    His. Appalachia, British, US, dialectal, especially

    "I will not show him this letter of yours, though you seem to desire it, lest it should provoke him to be too severe a schoolmaster, when you are his'n."

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"I will not show him this letter of yours, though you seem to desire it, lest it should provoke him to be too severe a schoolmaster, when you are his'n."

Etymology

From Middle English hisen, ultimately corresponding to an alteration of his after mine, thine.

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