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- noun Contraction of
heaven .
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Examples
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Still sound like deep mementos knell'd from heav'n;
The Age Reviewed 2010
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Blest with victory and peace, may the heav'n rescued land
Chris Weigant: Friday Talking Points [84] -- The Rockets' Red Glare, The Bombs Bursting In Air 2009
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Ben Jonson describes it as 'the rejecting of a vowel from the beginning or end of a word', such as we would see in heav'n or desir'st.
Archive 2008-04-01 DC 2008
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Satan, now back on earth, has a moment of doubt and despair in which he says that "the hell I suffer seems a heav'n."
Archive 2006-12-03 Newmania 2006
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Satan, now back on earth, has a moment of doubt and despair in which he says that "the hell I suffer seems a heav'n."
The Utopian Fallacy Newmania 2006
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Ben Jonson describes it as 'the rejecting of a vowel from the beginning or end of a word', such as we would see in heav'n or desir'st.
On possessive apostrophes DC 2008
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Initially, John Milton is described as "Unhappy tho in heav'n" (2: 18 E 96).
'If the acts have been perform'd let the Bard himself witness': William Blake's Milton and MOO space 2005
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Blest with victory and peace, may the heav'n rescued land
Nuestro Himno vuboq 2006
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But even still more beautiful new heav'n and earth shall be,
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And whose rosy fingers open wide the gates of heav'n!
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