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Thomas Dekker

Thomas Dekker (c1572–1632), playwright and pamphleteer.
The 153rd most frequently quoted source in the OED, with a total of 2313 quotations (about 0.07% of all OED quotations).
See article in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

Total number of quotations2313Find quotations
Quotations providing first evidence of a word217Find quotations
Quotations providing first evidence of a particular meaning785Find quotations
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