Example sentences for: holinshed

How can you use “holinshed” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Just think how many words must have been coined by writers whose works are the only ones extant from early periods of the language: people who misuse citation dictionaries must think that Richard Rolle of Hampole, Holinshed, Chaucer, Shakespeare, and a handful of other geniuses sat down one day and invented the English language, making up the words as they went along.

  • Similarly, historical lexicography--the vocabulary of Shakespeare, Milton, Chaucer, Richard Rolle of Hampole, the Holinshed Chronicle, etc.--has been relegated to footnotes in student editions or to specialized dictionaries.


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