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Eventful

Invented in Love's Labour's Lost

Last scene of all,
That ends this strange eventful history,
Is second childishness and mere oblivion,


It doesn't take a rocket scientist (or, um, genius playwright) to see that eventful = event + full, but here's something you might not know: after Shakespeare used the word just once, there was no record of it until almost 200 years later. It's like it just disappeared without a trace.


Tag: Love's Labour's Lost

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