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Original entry ↗pron
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryThat or those belonging to you; the possessive second-person singular pronoun used without a following noun. · Your house or home. · Written at the end of a letter, before the signature.
From Middle English youres, ȝoures, attested since the 1300s. Equivalent to your + -s (compare -'s); formed by analogy to his. Displaced yourn in standard speech.
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