Cant [ Language & Speech ]
… affected terms. 4. Barbarous jargon.’ Samuel Johnson, A Dictionary of the English Language [1755], The sixth edition (London, 1785). 2 . For more details on the relationship between religious and rhetorical changes within the Church of … of the John Rylands Library (vol. 73, n° 2, 1991), p. 159-280. 6 . See Isaac Bickerstaffe, The Hypocrite: a Comedy (London: W. Griffin, 1769). Due to the links between ‘cant’ and hypocrisy, the notion played an important role in debates … Journal (vol. 45, n° 4, Dec. 2002), p. 869-898, p. 879. 9 . Francis Grose, A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue (London: S. Hooper, 1785), ‘Preface’, p. ii-vi. In spite of this justification, Grose’s Dictionary was mostly motivated by …
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