Quote: the alphabetical index to Roget's thesaurus demonstrates the elasticity of language to adapt to different needs

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The alphabetical Index at the end of this Work sufficiently shows the multiplicity of uses to which, by the elasticity of language, the meaning of words has been stretched, so as to adapt them to a great variety of modified significations in subservience to the nicer shades of thought, which, under peculiarity of circumstances, require corresponding expression.   Google-1   Google-2

Published before 1923

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