Category: Literature
Created by: Carissa
Number of Blossarys: 6
While people had embraced before, they had never just enjoyed an embrace. Shakespeare was the first to use this verb as a noun in I Henry VI.
Shakespeare didn't mind borrowing from other languages. Domineering has been around in the Netherlands as a Dutch word, but Love's Labour's Lost was the first time it was used in the the English ...
In an example of poetic license, Shakespeare was the first to use deafening to mean something that was very loud, yet did not actually make a person deaf. It was first seen in II Henry IV.
Describing animals as cold-blooded was not Shakespeare's intent. Rather, in Kind John he first used to term to mean someone who was behaving in a heartless manner.
This is another word which was used before as a noun, but Shakespeare coined as a verb. It was first seen in Timon of Athens.
While the noun blanket had long been used, Shakespeare was the first to use it as a verb meaning: to cover.
Besmirch is first seen in I Henry IV. It is still used today and means to damage or hurt someone's name or reputation.