"Ultraviolence" Antedating?

[Fred Shapiro]

Here's a seemingly odd first use in the OED:  The first use there for
"ultraviolence" is dated 1972.  But isn't that word used prominently in a
major novel, A Clockwork Orange (1962)?

Fred Shapiro


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