Synonyms Discriminated: A Dictionary of Synonymous Words in the English Language (Classic Reprint)

Synonyms of theE nglish Language, which should be written in some respects from fresh points of view, and should be of a fuller character than commonly belongs to works on this subject. The present edition has been revised, and considerably enlarged. The Author feels bound specially to acknowledge material aid in his labours derived from the latest edition of M. Guizot sD ictionnaire Universel desS ynonymes de la langue Franqaise, from which, bearing in mind the differences between the genius of the French and theE nglish, he has extracted much valuable matter. He has also analyzed and assimilated the observations of previous writers onE nglish Synonymy a branch of literature which has hitherto borne very scanty fruit in our own country. Such writers are Crabbe, Taylor, Graham, and the late Archbishop Whately. While he has exercised his own independent judgment and original thought, he has not scrupled to incorporate views of other writers where he believed that he might do so with advantage. His object has been neither a display of originality on the one hand, nora servile compilation on the other, but such a combination of his own ideas with those of valued authorities as might tend to produce a useful work on the subject in hand. It would be needless to say to how great an extent any writer onE nglish Synonyms must at present be thrown on his own resources. He must acknowledge also invaluable help, in the quotations from Dr. Kichardson sE nglish Dictionary, which, from the comprehensive range of authors quoted, will in many cases be found to furnish, as it were, a literary biography of the words in question. The arrangement of their meanings in Webster has also been occasionally of good service.
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