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deterioration (n.)  
  
651   10:48 صباحاً   date: 2023-08-10
Author : David Crystal
Book or Source : A dictionary of linguistics and phonetics
Page and Part : 140-4


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deterioration (n.)

In HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS, a term used in the classification of types of SEMANTIC change, referring to the development of a SENSE of disapproval in a LEXICAL item; also called pejoration, and opposed to AMELIORATION. An example of the way words deteriorate is notorious, which once meant ‘widely known’, and now means ‘widely and unfavourably known’.