Wiktionary:Word of the day/2022/April 23
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honorificabilitudinitatibus n (chiefly humorous, obsolete, rare) | |
Today is Saint George’s Day, the feast day of the patron saint of England. It is also the death anniversary, and traditionally celebrated as the birthdate, of the English playwright William Shakespeare (1564–1616). The first appearance of the word honorificabilitudinitatibus in a printed English-language work was in the First Quarto of Shakespeare’s play Love’s Labour’s Lost (1598). | |
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