Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases

This is a mid-twentieth-century revision of Peter Mark Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases, first issued in 1852. Dutch keeps Roget's plan of grouping words by ideas rather than by alphabet alone: abstract relations, space, matter, intellect, volition, and emotion, with many subdivisions. Users look up a concept and find lists of near-synonyms, antonyms, and related terms for composition. The editor updates vocabulary and arrangement for later English while remaining a classified word-book, not a dictionary of definitions or etymologies. The volume is a reference work for writers, not a treatise on language history.

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