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I've seen this in multiple combinations, but the one I was specifically
looking at was:

> 「背負い **し** 者」

...from 「宿命を背負いし者」.

Similarly,

> 「かつて来たり **し** 者」

Scouring through all my grammar books, I can't find this form of し explained.
_A Dictionary of Basic Japanese Grammar_ (Seiichi Makino & Michio Tsutsui)
lists し as a particle, roughly translated as 'and', or as an infix attached to
an い-adj. In this context, the bit being modified by し is a verb, so would the
infix work the same way? I doubt し is a shorthand for する, given that it's
directly modifying the noun after it. Granted, I'm a beginner in Japanese.
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grammar particles verbs nouns
In "[Vます stem] + し+ [noun]" what does し mean?
「し」 is the [連体形]{れんたいけい} (= attributive form) of the Clasical auxiliary verb
「き」, which expresses "past tense".

As in your examples, it is sometimes used in the Modern context when the
author wants it to sound "literary" and/or "dramatic". Today, it is used
almost exclusively in fiction.

「[背負]{せお}いし[者]{もの}」＝「背負った者」

「かつて[来]{き}たりし者」＝「かつて来た者」

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