Lexical Losses in Metaphorical Mirrors
Lexical Losses in Metaphorical Mirrors

Summary/Abstract: This discussion explores philological arguments on the status of obsolete words in the English language, particularly during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The focus is not the substance of these debates but, rather, the style of language which was employed in these spirited disputes. It was a style in which the full range of the rhetorical repertoire was reflected in metaphorical mirrors.

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