molest, n.

[Dan Goncharoff]

I don't understand -- GB shows several usages of "sexual molest" before
1990, the earliest in 1967. They are all snippets, and several are
periodicals, so I cannot verify the dates, but it would indicate usage
before 1994.

DanG


On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 7:28 PM, Arnold Zwicky <zwicky at stanford.edu> wrote:

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> >> An attorney on Fox News oberves that the tot mom's defense is that she'd
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