The English word 'defeatism' is formed from the French word défaitisme current in 1915, which is not officially French: that is to say, in the early Twenties Marshal Foch, as a member of the Académie Française, vetoed its adoption into the Dictionary, on the ground that it was an un-French concept and intolerable.
Graves and Hodge, The Reader Over Your Shoulder
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Reading your blog, it becomes apparent how well learned and funny you are. It makes me wish that I had known you better back in law school. I mean that as a high compliment.
I take it as one. Thank you so much. And likewise.
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