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Webster 1913 Edition
Starvation
Star-va′tion
(stär-vā′shŭn)
, Noun.
The act of starving, or the state of being starved.
☞ This word was first used, according to Horace Walpole, by Henry Dundas, the first Lord Melville, in a speech on American affairs in 1775, which obtained for him the nickname of Starvation Dundas.
“Starvation, we are also told, belongs to the class of ’vile compounds' from being a mongrel; as if English were not full of mongrels, and as if it would not be in distressing straits without them.”
“Starvation, we are also told, belongs to the class of ’vile compounds' from being a mongrel; as if English were not full of mongrels, and as if it would not be in distressing straits without them.”
Fitzed. Hall.