Another Antedating of "Anti-Semitic"

Shapiro, Fred fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU
Mon Jan 16 13:22:14 UTC 2012


anti-Semitic (OED 1881)

1873 _Trewman's Exeter Flying Post_ 8 Jan. (19th Century British Library Newspapers)  Passing over that piteous slip which must have been borrowed at a low rate of interest from his friend the anti-Semitic lecturer.

Fred Shapiro

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