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poet coiner. British poet Thomas Hardy regarded critics as “parasites no less noxious than autograph hunters,” but he did humorously admit that he might have been guilty of coining too many words. He said that “once or twice he had looked up a word in the dictionary for fear of being again accused of coin- ing, and had found it there right enough—only to read on and find that the sole authority quoted was himself in a half- forgotten novel.” |