| 词汇 | donate |
| 词源 | donate. The verb donate is a back formation from the noun donation. An Americanism recorded as early as 1795, it is firm- ly established today, but at first met with vociferous opposition, having been placed on William Cullen Bryant’s Index Expurga- torius and denounced as “pretentious and magniloquent vul- garism” by a British writer as late as 1935. |
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