Antedating of "Sibling"

Shapiro, Fred fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU
Thu Jun 21 15:11:38 UTC 2012

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The modern usage of the word "sibling" has 1903 as its first use in OED.  There are several 1900 occurrences in JSTOR.

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