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Starvation Dundas

Henry Dundas, first Lord Melville, who was the first to introduce the word starvation into the language, on an American debate in 1775. (Anglo-Saxon, steorfan, to perish of hunger; German, sterben; Dutch, sterven.)

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.