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The Secret Life of Words.(Brief article)(Book review)
This historical tour of the English lexicon considers words as etymological "fossils of past dreams and traumas," revealing the preoccupations of the ages that produced them. The nineteenth century's "cult of fine feelings" gave currency to "sensibility" and "physiognomy"; "popery" and "libertine" sprang from the religious skepticism of the sixteen-hundreds. Many such relics began as imports: centuries of Anglophone empire-building have occasioned borrowings ...
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