desynonymized

Updated: May 5, 2025

Take now some words not thus desynonymized by usage only, but having a fundamental etymological distinction, one, however, which it would be easy to overlook, and which, so long as we dwell on the surface of the word, we shall overlook; and try whether we shall not be gainers by bringing out the distinction into clear consciousness.

Richard Chenevix Trench - On the Study of Words