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Samuel Crockett

Samuel Rutherford Crockett (1859–1914), Free Church of Scotland minister and novelist.
The 589th most frequently quoted source in the OED, with a total of 802 quotations (about 0.02% of all OED quotations).
See article in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

Total number of quotations802Find quotations
Quotations providing first evidence of a word18Find quotations
Quotations providing first evidence of a particular meaning87Find quotations
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