What's really interesting about that is that a lot of these words that were incendiary in their time now seem almost harmless and laughable, because they have this archaic quality.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I guess I'm attracted to more archaic words because they can be imbued with more meaning, because their definition is elusive.
Mind you, the Elizabethans had so many words for the female genitals that it is quite hard to speak a sentence of modern English without inadvertently mentioning at least three of them.
Dialect words are those terrible marks of the beast to the truly genteel.
Words are like weapons; they wound sometimes.
Words like feminism or democracy scare me. They are words with barnacles on them, and you can't see what's underneath.
How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words!
Words have life and must be cared for. If they are stolen for ugly uses or careless slang or false promotion work, they need to be brought back to their original meaning - back to their roots.
Words are most malignant, the most treacherous possession of mankind. They are saturated with the sorrows of all time.
You know, funny is this weird word for me. I hear is so many times it has no meaning anymore.
I could list hundreds of words I've come up against in the course of my work that did not exist in the era of which I was writing and for which I never could find a suitably old-time, archaic or obsolete substitute.