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Revival: A Select Glossary (1906) Of English Words Used Formerly in Senses Different from their Present
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Routledge
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Routledge
263 Pages
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Routledge
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This volume is intended to be a contribution to a special branch of the study of our own language. It proposes to trace in a popular manner and for general readers the changes of meaning which so many of its words have undergone; words which, as current with us as they were with out forefathers, yet meant something different on their lips from what they mean on ours.
A Select Glossary A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V
Biography
Richard Chenevix Trench,