OBSOLETE, adj. No longer used by the timid. Said chiefly of words. A w…

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OBSOLETE, adj. No longer used by the timid. Said chiefly of words. A word which some lexicographer has marked obsolete is ever thereafter an object of dread and loathing to the fool writer . . . ✨ Ambrose Bierce (2016). The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World, p.152, 谷月社
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OBSOLETE, adj. No longer used by the timid. Said chiefly of words. A word which some lexicographer has marked obsolete is ever thereafter an object of dread and loathing to the fool writer . . . ✨ Ambrose Bierce (2016). The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World, p.152, 谷月社

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