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John Edgar wrote:
My OED has the following, "psychopath n. 1a person suffering from chronic mental disorder esp. with abnormal or violent social behaviour. 2a mentally or emotionally unstable person." IIRC you omitted the 'esp.' (presumably 'especially')from 1a and didn't mention 2a at all. Well my C.O.D doesn't. I would refer you to the C.O.D., 1999 edition, p1154. John If there's a dictionary war on, let's be clear about what weapons we use. The above definitions come from the COD (_Concise Oxford Dictionary_), not from the OED (_Oxford English Dictionary_). The COD is a small desk dictionary. The OED is an attempt to record almost every way almost every word has ever been used in English, with examples, in some twenty big volumes; the latest edition is bigger, and available only electronically. I'm not being fussy: the difference is like that between a spoon and a shovel. -- Mike. |
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