![]() ![]() ![]() On January 7, 1858, the Society formally adopted the idea of a comprehensive new dictionary. Trench suggested that a new, truly comprehensive dictionary was needed. The Society eventually shifted their idea from only words that were not already in English dictionaries to a more comprehensive project. The Philological Society, however, ultimately realized that the number of unlisted words would be far more than the number of words in the English dictionaries of the 19th century.
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