Words coined by Thomas More
Aside from "Utopia," one website I read claims that Peter Ackroyd's "Life of Thomas More" attributes these words to him:fact, taunt, shuffle, anticipate, paradox, pretext, obstruction, monosyllable,...
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OED2 has four cites of "meeting" from before More's birth in 1478, the earliest being "c1300 Cursor M...." The first, however, to have the modern spelling is from 1771 (eg, the 1400 cite has...
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Which does not, of course, mean that he "coined" them. This is one of my least favorite Safirisms.
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