[Ads-l] Antedating of "Starvation"

[Shapiro, Fred]

starvation (OED 1779)

1762 Claudero _Poems on Several Occasions_ 41 (Eighteenth Century Collections Online)  T' avoid starvation in the north, He took a boat and cross'd the _Forth_.

NOTE:  This antedating invalidates the statement in the OED that the word originated in a Parliamentary context in 1775.

Fred Shapiro


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