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Meanings of old meaning in English

Russian
устар.
Spanish
significado antiguo

Indicates that the sense of lexeme is dated and falling out of use.

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        устар.
        Usage of old meaning in English
        1
        The Irish Times seems to be sticking largely to the old meaning.
        The Irish Times
        2
        But as time went on these pilgrimages lost their old meaning.
        English Literature for Boys and Girls
        3
        The order was, from the first, ultramontane, in the old meaning of the term.
        Lectures on Modern history
        4
        It is a new order with an old meaning: imperialism.
        The Irish Times
        5
        Sometimes words keep both the old meaning and the new.
        Stories That Words Tell Us
        6
        Now, 'to quail' in Cornwall still carries its old meaning, 'to shrink,' 'to wither.'
        From a Cornish Window / A New Edition
        7
        When the new-style months eventually came, they never quite shook off the old meaning either.
        The Guardian
        8
        Ah well, the Princess was really an aristocrat in the old meaning of the word.
        The Camp Fire Girls in the Outside World
        9
        For what is the old meaning, the true meaning of a hero or a heroine?
        The Good News of God
        10
        Has he revealed a new-orbetter-theeternal old meaning?
        The Psychology of Beauty
        11
        But the old meaning of "write" is to incise, or to cut, or engrave.
        Our Catholic Heritage in English Literature of Pre-Conquest Days
        12
        The fathers of two-score families were shopkeepers and tradesmen--that is, tradesmen in the old meaning of the word.
        The Foundations of Japan / Notes Made During Journeys Of 6,000 M...
        13
        But now the old meaning, or some of it, is back, in a form with which liberals cannot live.
        Reuters
        14
        The old meaning may have disappeared, a new one come in-nomatter, we try to believe there has been no change.
        A Preface to Politics
        15
        Note the fine old meaning of "discided," cut in two; it is a great pity we have lost this powerful expression.
        Stones of Venice [introductions]
        16
        Milton had the old meaning of the word in mind when he wrote: "To reign is worth ambition, though in hell."
        The Irish Times
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