Antedating of "Unemployment"

[Fred Shapiro]

unemployment (OED 1888)

1717 _The Censor_ (ed. 2) III. 191 (Eighteenth Centuryu Collections
Online)  I may lay all Day on the Solitary Board buried in Dust and
Obscurity, and owe a Perusal only to the Unemployment of the indolent
_Waiters_.

Fred Shapiro


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