Revival: A Select Glossary (1906)

Name: Revival: A Select Glossary (1906)
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

Revival: A Select Glossary (1906)Of English Words Used Formerly in Senses Different from their Present\nAuthor(s): Richard Chenevix Trench\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138563698, 978-1138563698\nSynopsis\nThis 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.