Trench traces, for general readers, the shifts of meaning in words still current but used quite differently by Shakespeare, Milton, the Bible translators and other older writers. Each entry pairs a word such as ‘ingenuous’ or ‘ingenious’ with quotations showing its former sense, so that the history of the language unfolds through examples.
A delightful reference by the archbishop who first proposed the Oxford English Dictionary, revised by A. L. Mayhew. Download the free EPUB.