July 27, 2010

First the noun, then the adjective?


Although the word "quixotic" appears in Don Quijote itself (which was published in two volumes in 1605 and 1615), the Oxford English Dictionary gives the year of the word's first appearance in English as 1815, more than a century after "quixotism" (1688).

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