Indicates that the sense of lexeme is dated and falling out of use.
1 The Irish Times seems to be sticking largely to the old meaning .
2 But as time went on these pilgrimages lost their old meaning .
3 The order was, from the first, ultramontane, in the old meaning of the term.
4 It is a new order with an old meaning : imperialism.
5 Sometimes words keep both the old meaning and the new.
6 Now, 'to quail' in Cornwall still carries its old meaning , 'to shrink,' 'to wither.'
7 When the new-style months eventually came, they never quite shook off the old meaning either.
8 Ah well, the Princess was really an aristocrat in the old meaning of the word.
9 For what is the old meaning , the true meaning of a hero or a heroine?
10 Has he revealed a new-orbetter-theeternal old meaning ?
11 But the old meaning of "write" is to incise, or to cut, or engrave.
12 The fathers of two-score families were shopkeepers and tradesmen--that is, tradesmen in the old meaning of the word.
13 But now the old meaning , or some of it, is back, in a form with which liberals cannot live.
14 The old meaning may have disappeared, a new one come in-nomatter, we try to believe there has been no change.
15 Note the fine old meaning of "discided," cut in two; it is a great pity we have lost this powerful expression.
16 Milton had the old meaning of the word in mind when he wrote: "To reign is worth ambition, though in hell."
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