Antedating of "Deviance"

[Fred Shapiro]

deviance (OED 1944)

1941 _Amer. Anthropologist_ 43: 22  Only this solitary settlement has
taken to raising potatoes, only they keep cattle as well as buffalo.  The
reason for their deviance is not far to seek.

Fred Shapiro


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