Q: date for "bobalition"?

[Barnhart]

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>I don't find "bobalition" (abolition) in the OED.  When is it dated
>to?  Should it be in the OED?
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>Joel
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Here is a good example of a term that benefits from "Googling".  Nexis and
ProQuest (two pretty standard sources) have very little.  Historic NYT has
nothing.  These I have just checked at home.  Googling produced more--569.

>From an academic library there might be more sources to search.

If something in the 569 is strong enough, it might go into a dictionary in
due course.  Some seem at first glance to support early 19th century
evidence.



DKB

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