[Ads-l] Further Slight Antedating of "Terrorism"

[Shapiro, Fred]

terrorism (OED 1795 [Thomas Paine speech delivered 7 July])

1795 _The Phenix, Or, Windham Herald_ (Windham, Conn.) 13 June 3/1 (America's Historical Newspapers)  Thus we should have passed a few days under the axe of terrorism, to arrive at last under the gibbet of royalism.

Fred Shapiro

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