Historical Thesaurus of English

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Historical Thesaurus of English:

http://historicalthesaurus.arts.gla.ac.uk

The University of Glasgow’s Historical Thesaurus of English is a unique resource charting the development of meaning in the huge and varied vocabulary of English. It consists of almost every recorded word in English from Anglo-Saxon times to the present day, all arranged into detailed hierarchies of meaning.